Plymouth shooting: Jake Davison named as gunman who killed five - BBC News

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A man suspected of killing five people before turning the gun on himself has been named locally as Jake Davison.

Three females and two males were shot in the Keyham area of the city on Thursday evening.

Police said the incident, the worst mass shooting in Britain since 2010, is not terror-related.

Four people died at the scene and one died later in hospital. An MP has said one victim was a child.

Emergency services were called to Biddick Drive shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday

Devon and Cornwall Police said two females and the three males died at the scene, while one female died shortly after in hospital.

The force added: "The area has been cordoned off and police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident."

Plymouth Sutton & Devonport MP Luke Pollard said the incident was "unspeakably awful" and that he was "utterly devastated" to learn one of those killed was a child.

People were asked to stay inside and follow police advice as the emergency services responded.

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Eyewitness Sharron, who lives nearby and did not want to give her full name, said what happened was "horrendous and so sad".

"Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots - three possibly four to begin with," she said.

"This was when the shooter kicked in the door of a house and randomly started shooting. He ran from the house shooting as he ran and proceeded to shoot at a few people in the linear park up from the drive."

She said the "shooter proceeded along Royal Navy Avenue still shooting".

Scenes of crime officers in white suits could be seen using cameras in the street and members of the public who lived locally were not allowed into their homes, PA Media reported.

Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted: "The incident in Plymouth is shocking and my thoughts are with those affected.

"I have spoken to the chief constable and offered my full support.

"I urge everyone to remain calm, follow police advice and allow our emergency services to get on with their jobs."

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The last mass shooting in Britain happened in 2010 when taxi driver Derrick Bird killed 12 people in Cumbria.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: "There's much we don't know about the shocking events in Plymouth. However it's clear tragedy has hit Keyham."

Johnny Mercer, MP for Plymouth Moor view, described Thursday's events as "tragic" and "devastating".

He said: "There were some fairly traumatic aspects to this incident and as a community now need to come together and try and understand it as much as we can."

The Bishop of Plymouth the Right Reverend Nick McKinnel said the city had been "left with a legacy of grief and trauma, as well as great anxiety".

"Last night there was confusion, a little bit of panic. People were shocked and the tragedy is unfolding.

"This is going to affect people's lives forever," he said.

Mr Pollard said Ford Primary School and St Mark's Church on Cambridge Road would be open from 09:00 as a "safe place for our community to come together".

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Bridgend: Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after two-year-old boy dies in South Wales - Sky News

Police have launched a murder investigation after a two-year-old boy died in South Wales.

He was found in a critical condition at an address in the Broadlands area of Bridgend at about 8.30pm on Wednesday.

The boy was taken to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where he died on Thursday afternoon.

South Wales Police said a 31-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.

"I understand this incident will have caused concerns in the local community, but I must stress we are not currently looking for anyone else in connection with this matter at this time," Detective Chief Inspector Matt Davies said.

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He asked people not to speculate on social media about the circumstances during what is "a very difficult time for all concerned".

Police liaison officers are working with the family.

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Plymouth shooting: Child among six killed in serious firearms incident, MP says - Sky News

A child is among six people who have died after a shooting in Plymouth, one of the city's MPs has said.

Devon and Cornwall Police has confirmed two females and two males were found dead at the scene in Keyham - along with a man who has been described as the suspected offender.

All are believed to have died from gunshot wounds.

Another female who was treated at the scene, also for gunshot wounds, died later in hospital.

Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, wrote on Twitter: "I'm utterly devastated that one of the people killed in the Keyham shooting was a child under 10 years old."

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He also confirmed that more people were being treated for their injuries in hospital.

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Air ambulances attend Plymouth shooting

Officers were called to Biddick Drive at about 6.10pm last night.

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South Western Ambulance Service said Hazardous Area Response Teams, multiple ambulances, air ambulances, multiple doctors and senior paramedics were also sent to the scene.

Police declared a "critical incident" but stressed the shooting was not terror related and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with what happened.

The next of kin of those who died have been informed.

One witness, who lives near the scene and gave her name as Sharron, told the BBC: "Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots - three, possibly four to begin with.

"This was when the shooter kicked in the door of a house and randomly started shooting... he ran from the house shooting as he ran and proceeded to shoot at a few people in the Linear Park up from the drive."

Image: Forensics teams were on the scene on Thursday night

Members of the public are being urged not to post or share footage from the immediate aftermath of the incident on social media.

Home Secretary Priti Patel described the incident in the Devon city as "shocking" and said her thoughts were with all those affected.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer echoed her remarks, adding: "I pay tribute to our emergency services who ran towards events we'd all run from."

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5 killed in shooting in Plymouth, England; gunman also dead, police say - NBC News

A shooting in southwest England on Thursday evening killed five people, police said, and the gunman is also dead.

In a statement, Devon & Cornwall Police said they responded to "a serious firearms incident in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth," after 6 p.m.

"Following attendance at the scene, two females and two males were deceased at the scene," police said. "A further male, believed to be the offender, was also deceased at the scene. All are believed to have died from gunshot wounds."

"Another female treated at the scene for gunshot wounds, died a short time later in hospital."

Police say all of the next of kin of the deceased have been informed and that no one else is being sought in connection with the incident.

Police have not identified the suspect or the victims and have not announced a motive.

Plymouth is a city of over 200,000 people on the southwest coast of England.

Johnny Mercer, a member of Parliament from the area, said in a tweet that the incident "is not terror related, and neither is the suspect on the run in Plymouth."

Luke Pollard, another member of Parliament from Plymouth, said details of the incident are "awfully grim" and warned to "prepare" for "more grim news tomorrow."

"I’m utterly devastated that one of the people killed in the #keyham shooting was a child under ten years old," Pollard tweeted.

"There are images and videos circulating on social media that show bodies on the ground — we are a strong city, we are a decent city, full of decent people, please can we not share those images?" Pollard asked.

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Afghanistan: UK troops sent to get Britons out as Taliban advances - BBC News

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Around 600 UK troops are to be sent to Afghanistan to assist British nationals to leave, the government has announced.

It comes as the Taliban has seized the cities of Ghazni and Herat - taking control of 11 provincial capitals in less than a week.

Military personnel will provide protection and help relocate UK nationals, Afghan staff and interpreters.

Last week the Foreign Office advised all British nationals to leave.

It is estimated that around 4,000 British citizens are still in the country.

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the security of British nationals, military personnel and former Afghan staff was the government's first priority and that it "must do everything we can to ensure their safety".

Mr Wallace said deployment of troops, who will be arriving in the coming days, was a "pre-planned phase" and was to "enable the next step of leaving".

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But the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the additional deployment was "in light of the increasing violence and rapidly deteriorating security environment in the country".

The UK's ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, will continue to lead a small team in Afghanistan which will relocate within Kabul to a more secure location, the MoD said.

As well as British nationals, the embassy will help the UK's Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which has already supported more than 3,100 former Afghan staff and their families to move to the UK, including 1,800 in the last few weeks, the MoD said.

The US has also said it is sending 3,000 military troops to the airport in Kabul to help evacuate a "significant" amount of embassy staff on special flights.

Analysis

By Paul Adams, BBC diplomatic correspondent

It was always likely, this close to the end of the Nato mission to Afghanistan, that events would appear to accelerate. We are, after all, getting out.

But as they made their careful arrangements, planners did not necessarily anticipate the speed of the Taliban's advance, or the weakness of an Afghan military the US and its allies spent almost two decades building up.

What they wanted was an orderly withdrawal, with the Afghan government able to hold its own.

What we're facing, instead, is something altogether more chaotic.

Perverse though it might sound, sending troops in to get people out was always going to be part of the plan.

So too was the relocation of the British embassy to a more secure (and as yet undisclosed) location.

But the withdrawal of an unspecified number of embassy personnel, with the Americans making a similar move, is clearly being driven by events on the ground.

With US officials warning that the Afghan government could fall in as little as 30 days (a worst case scenario, it has to be noted), these feel like the crisis plans everyone hoped they wouldn't have to use.

Thousands of civilians have been displaced and fled to Kabul to try to escape the fighting.

And the UN has estimated more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in the past month.

Makeshift camps have been established on the outskirts of the capital, while many others have reportedly been sleeping on the streets or in abandoned warehouses.

Labour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said the MoD had his party's full backing on sending troops to help the evacuation.

"We share widespread dismay that the security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating so much faster than forecast," he said, adding that while the UK's forces were withdrawing "we cannot walk away from the people of Afghanistan".

In a heartfelt series of posts, Conservative chair of the Commons Foreign Select Committee Tom Tugendhat, who served in Afghanistan, tweeted that the decision to withdraw was "like a rug pulled from under the feet of our partners".

"That's why I'm angry. It's wasteful and unnecessary. And why it's personal? Because I've seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away," he wrote.

Tory colleague Tobias Ellwood, who chairs the Defence Select Committee and also served in the British Army, told the BBC we "should really be reconsidering what's going on" in Afghanistan. He warned the withdrawal of troops was leaving the country to a "massive humanitarian disaster" and said that it would allow terrorism to "raise its ugly head again".

The Taliban has moved with speed, seizing new territories and cities almost daily, as the US and other foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years of military operations.

They now control around a third of the country's regional cities and most of northern Afghanistan.

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On Thursday the Taliban took control of Herat, the third largest city, and there is heavy fighting in Kandahar, the second largest.

Meanwhile the taking of the strategically important Ghazni increases the likelihood the group could take the capital Kabul.

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'Significant' emergency services response deployed to incident in Plymouth - Sky News

A "significant" emergency services response has been deployed to an incident in Plymouth.

South Western Ambulance Service said "Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART), multiple ambulances, air ambulances, multiple doctors and senior paramedics" were all sent to the scene of an ongoing incident at 6.12pm.

Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, tweeted: "Really worrying news coming out of Keyham in #plymouth. Please can everyone stay safe, stay indoors and follow police advice."

Really worrying news coming out of Keyham in #plymouth. Please can everyone stay safe, stay indoors and follow police advice.

— Luke Pollard MP (@LukePollard) August 12, 2021

In a longer Facebook post, the Labour shadow environment secretary said "there looks to be a very serious situation happening in Keyham".

"I've spoken to some local residents and the Police and the situation looks very serious indeed," he adds.

Plymouth Moor View MP Johnny Mercer said he was "aware of a serious and tragic incident unfolding in Plymouth", urging people to "obey all instructions from the police".

I am aware of a serious and tragic incident unfolding in Plymouth. Please obey all instructions from the Police and do not post rumour or speculation on social media. I will post news when I have it.

— Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) August 12, 2021

Multiple police vehicles have been seen in the area.

Devon and Cornwall Police have been contacted for more information.

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