An armed police car has crashed following reports of a shooting in Leeds.
Police were called to reports of the shooting in Thorpe Road, in the Middleton area of the city, this evening.
Neighbours said a man was shot at around 8pm. He was quickly rushed to hospital in an ambulance and a police scene was set up.
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One Thorpe Road resident said crime scene investigators cordoned off the road and looked to be, "trying to find the gun with torches."
Meanwhile, an armed police car was in a collision with a taxi on Leeds ring road.
The dark coloured unmarked BMW X5 crashed into the taxi at the junction with Bodmin Road in Middleton, around one mile from the scene of the shooting. A police scene is in place.
It is not clear if the police vehicle crashed on route to the shooting or another incident.
West Yorkshire Police have been contacted for a statement on the two incidents.
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