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| Body found after police shooting | Body found after police shooting |
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| A body of a woman has been found at a flat in Kent following a stand-off at a supermarket, in which police marksmen shot a man in the arm. | A body of a woman has been found at a flat in Kent following a stand-off at a supermarket, in which police marksmen shot a man in the arm. |
| Officers went to the flat in Victoria Road, Canterbury in the early hours of Friday after the shooting at Morrisons in Wincheap in the city. | Officers went to the flat in Victoria Road, Canterbury in the early hours of Friday after the shooting at Morrisons in Wincheap in the city. |
| Police are waiting to question the man, who is under arrest in hospital and being treated for a bullet wound. | Police are waiting to question the man, who is under arrest in hospital and being treated for a bullet wound. |
| The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has been informed. | |
| Armed officers were called to Morrisons after witnesses reported a man brandishing a firearm inside the store on Thursday evening. | Armed officers were called to Morrisons after witnesses reported a man brandishing a firearm inside the store on Thursday evening. |
| I heard just the one shot but it was quite loud Pamela Elvidge | |
| Police said the man's injuries were not thought to be life threatening. | Police said the man's injuries were not thought to be life threatening. |
| No one else was injured during the incident. A weapon has been recovered from the supermarket. | No one else was injured during the incident. A weapon has been recovered from the supermarket. |
| Cleaner Pamela Elvidge, 56, who was shopping in the store, said she saw a man who appeared to be carrying a handgun in the beer and wine aisle. | |
| "We went to pay for our shopping and then went to the cigarette aisle and then there was this almighty gunshot sound, and then the staff all told us to get out of the shop," she said. | |
| "There were about 50 to 60 people in there at the time, not many, which was just as well really as it was a pretty frightening experience to go through. | |
| "I heard just the one shot but it was quite loud. We all went out into the car park but we couldn't leave. | |
| "As we waited, we saw someone being brought out on a stretcher." | |
| The death of the woman is being treated as suspicious and police are carrying out a forensic examination of the flat in Victoria Road. | The death of the woman is being treated as suspicious and police are carrying out a forensic examination of the flat in Victoria Road. |
| An IPCC spokesman said: "The IPCC deployed investigators to the scene of a non-fatal police shooting in Canterbury, Kent, yesterday evening. | |
| "The IPCC was informed of the incident by Kent Police shortly after 9pm. | |
| "Investigators began an initial assessment into the circumstances of the shooting." |