Armed Siege on Dumbarton Rd

Police called to suspected armed siege in Glasgow - The Daily Record

All sorts of rumours of some guy throwing grenades/flares out his window and shooting his dug/girlfriend/Polis and or holding someone hostage.

Rumours abound

 

Hysterical .

 

Is this some sort of failed attempt at internet sarcasm?

 

* going down in g-town.

 

I heard that aswell from a lassie on FB

 

Mental. My mate stays in Apsley St, better not have been him he owes me 20 quid

 

i live on dumbarton road, partick. news to me

 

linkity link link ??

 

what kind of dug has he got ,i have a wee border collie ,,,,yeha ,,slan

 

Where the * would he get granades.. not like you can pick them up at tesco

 

somebody in ma school was ragin cos they had to take a long way to the train station

 

i put pictures up, now they have gone, any reason?

 

Yes there was 2 posts from you,but there was nothing in the posts.

So i removed them.

 

ahh, weird
well it was just pictures from the evening times

 

No problem.



Is it a bit of a sham this "seige".........report that it is just flares.

Has anyone been shot ?

 

crazy * goin down!!!

 

All sorts of rumours of some guy throwing grenades/flares out his window and shooting his dug/girlfriend/Polis and or holding someone hostage.

Rumours abound


No it was a reply to your opening post which you seemed to find funny when you spoke of a shooting ,of his dug ,girfriend etc ,,got a problem with that.

 

Three live grenades were thrown out of a tenement window during a siege in Glasgow’s West End today.
Armed police swooped on Dumbarton Road after reports a man had a gun and was threatening to harm himself.
The tense stand-off saw busy streets in the Partick area cordoned off as police tried to negotiate with the man.
Three grenades – thought to be flash-bang grenades, which blind and deafen a target – were seen being thrown from the building.
Women were heard screaming and there were reports that the man had shot a dog.
Locals also claimed shots had been fired at police officers, but this remained unconfirmed.
Emergency services were called to the scene at 7.45am when the armed man was understood to have barricaded himself into a flat.
Dumbarton Road was cordoned off between Crow Road and Apsley Street.
Residents said they saw a woman and child, sheltering under a police officer’s jacket, coming out of the building, but it is not known if they were from the siege flat or a neighbouring home.
More than three hours later police were still maintaining a presence outside the building, with guns pointed at the flat.
Residents saw a team of police officers slowly move towards the back of the building and it is thought they were about to enter the flat. Steven Murphy, 30, was told he could not get into his flat this morning and was concerned for his parents, Shirley and Les.
He said: “I stayed at my girlfriend’s last night.
“My mum and dad heard a young girl had been held hostage and then taken away by police officers.
“My parents were told to stay indoors and keep the windows closed.”
A shopkeeper, who did not want to be named, said: “We were told there were two women in the house and they were screaming out of a window when a dog was shot.
“He was supposed to have been firing at police.”
Angela Lumsden, 38, who works in a nearby lawyers office, said: “Police were telling people to stay close to the side of the building.
“It is a really frightening situation.”
A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said: “Following a disturbance, a man has locked himself within a flat.
“Police, public order trained officers and negotiators are in attendance dealing with incident.”
Rush hour commuters faced diversions and buses were also re-routed. Several shops in the cordon were unable to open their doors while police tried to contain the situation.
An ambulance crew were standing by.

 

if they are flash grenades throw them in the chaps house and sort it out