Major incident in Nottingham

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Anyone local know what’s going on?

Looks like a huge response.

Looks very concerning, who are all the men in maroon and black gear?

I think Sky News said they’re Inter agency liaison teams. It’s so strange that nobody seems to know what’s happened.

City centre closed, tram network closed.

Police, fire service, special forces all on the scene.

Ongoing incident since the early hours of this morning apparently.

Odd that there seems to be nothing on BBC news about this though

Nottingham: Serious police incident closes city centre - BBC News

It is on BBC

BBC is reporting it, you must have missed it.

Bomb disposal.

@PrancerandDancer BBC Breakfast kept a running breaking news story on it!

So I guess we are to assume a terrorist incident?

I always thought the likelihood of Russian terrorist in the U.K would be higher since we actively started arming Ukraine.

No ambulances there that I have seen. I think there raiding or removing someone and are containing the area. Or a threat has come in within the vicinity.

There's an AIBU thread too.

Sad if we are getting terrorist incidents back. We had so many in Britain before the pandemic and then they all stopped. I assume that no one is hurt and they are dealing with deactivating a bomb.

@AngelAurora apparently there are loads and oriole have been taken to A&E at QMC. My colleagues mum is a nurse there. They are pulling nurses from wards

They’re National inter-agency liaison officer (NILO)

I was really hoping it was just a training exercise, sadly this seems less likely now.

It's being reported that someone has been arrested with a knife next to a white van after having been tapered.

Paramedic team, born of the Manchester bombing.

They just had a man talking to Kay Burley on Sky News and he said a car had driven into people, stabbed and killed them. He got swiftly shut down by her and told not to speculate.

The only bit of eyewitness information (and this was via GB News) was someone interviewed saying they’d heard gunshots at 530am and seen someone tasered and arrested.

That doesn’t explain the massive response.

Perhaps they have intervened and stoped a terrorist attack.

Unusual for there to not be eyewitnesses - which is good I suppose, as it suggests people haven’t been hurt.

no idea, so let’s all wildly speculate.

They're NILO, national inter agency liaison officers.

Who knows but to me it has to be more than a random stabbing or shooting as Nottingham is full of those on any given day and they don't close down half the city centre for it.

Part of the fire and rescue team. You can see it says "rescue" on their helmets.

It is a large area of Nottingham to be closed for a minor incident and for so long.

Even with the full truth people still do that either way