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04-08-2011, 01:28 PM
A man has been arrested after a shooting on board the nuclear submarine HMS Astute left two people injured.
Police were called at 1212 BST to Southampton docks where the vessel has been berthed since Wednesday as part of a five-day visit.
An eyewitness said he saw one person being stretchered off the submarine into a waiting ambulance.
Police said there is no public safety risk and the incident is not linked to terrorism. The area is sealed off.
Brian Cedar, who lives in Hythe marina, said: "I saw at least six people carry a stretcher off the gangway into a waiting ambulance.
"There were a couple of forensic people who have now left.
"If you can have a shooting like this on a nuclear submarine it is worrying."
The area around the docks has been sealed off by officers from Hampshire Police.
The 97m-long (318ft) HMS Astute, the UK's newest and largest nuclear submarine, is based at the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde.
It ran aground on a shingle bank between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Skye in October last year and remained marooned for several hours.
HMS Astute was named and launched by the Duchess of Cornwall in June 2007 before being welcomed into the Royal Navy in August last year at a commissioning ceremony at Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde.
The submarine weighs 7,800 tonnes, equivalent to nearly 1,000 double-decker buses, and is almost 100 metres (328ft) long.
Its Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles are capable of delivering pinpoint strikes from 2,000km (1,240 miles) with conventional weapons.
The submarine's nuclear reactor means it does not need refuelling and it makes its own air and water, enabling it to circumnavigate the globe without needing to surface
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13014640
Police were called at 1212 BST to Southampton docks where the vessel has been berthed since Wednesday as part of a five-day visit.
An eyewitness said he saw one person being stretchered off the submarine into a waiting ambulance.
Police said there is no public safety risk and the incident is not linked to terrorism. The area is sealed off.
Brian Cedar, who lives in Hythe marina, said: "I saw at least six people carry a stretcher off the gangway into a waiting ambulance.
"There were a couple of forensic people who have now left.
"If you can have a shooting like this on a nuclear submarine it is worrying."
The area around the docks has been sealed off by officers from Hampshire Police.
The 97m-long (318ft) HMS Astute, the UK's newest and largest nuclear submarine, is based at the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde.
It ran aground on a shingle bank between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Skye in October last year and remained marooned for several hours.
HMS Astute was named and launched by the Duchess of Cornwall in June 2007 before being welcomed into the Royal Navy in August last year at a commissioning ceremony at Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde.
The submarine weighs 7,800 tonnes, equivalent to nearly 1,000 double-decker buses, and is almost 100 metres (328ft) long.
Its Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles are capable of delivering pinpoint strikes from 2,000km (1,240 miles) with conventional weapons.
The submarine's nuclear reactor means it does not need refuelling and it makes its own air and water, enabling it to circumnavigate the globe without needing to surface
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13014640