Scottish police said they shot a suspect during an operation in Glasgow in which an officer was injured Friday, media reports said three had died.

Scottish police said they shot a suspect during an operation in Glasgow in which an officer was injured Friday, media reports said three had been killed without official confirmation.

"Man shot by armed police"

Emergency services are currently dealing with an incident on West George Street in Glasgow. The street is currently closed off and the public are asked to avoid the area at present. The situation is contained at this time and there is no danger to the general public. pic.twitter.com/xk5sDUTmtr

- Greater Glasgow Police (@GreaterGlasgPol) June 26, 2020

A large police force was deployed in Glasgow city center and several streets were cordoned off, said an AFP journalist. "The incident is contained and the public is not in danger," said Steve Johnson, one of the Scottish police officials. "I can confirm that a suspect, a man, was shot by an armed police officer," he added, quoted in a Scottish police tweet. According to him, a police officer intervening on the spot was injured and admitted to the hospital.

A stabbed policeman

Interior Minister Priti Patel tweeted "deeply alarming" information, without giving further details. Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the news from Glasgow as "truly horrible". According to the Twitter account of the Scottish Police Federation, an organization which represents officers, the injured policeman was stabbed.

A witness quoted by the PA agency reported four people taken by ambulance. Craig Milroy said he saw a man "on the ground, with a person by his side:" I don't know if it was a gunshot wound, a stab wound or what it was. "A witness, a woman named Louise, told Sky News, saw bloody people on the ground, being taken care of.

A week after the Reading attack

"I saw people running out of the hotel, the police shouting 'but in the air, hands in the air, go out'". "There were police cars, ambulances all over the street that was cordoned off. The police were yelling at people from other buildings near the Park Inn to stay inside." The incident comes less than a week after three men were fatally stabbed last Saturday in Reading, west London, which was seized by the anti-terrorist police.