An armed police stake-out on a planned bank raid in Hampshire ended yesterday with one of the robbers shot dead at the scene and the other dying in hospital two hours later.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission immediately announced it was investigating the shooting outside the HSBC branch in Chandler’s Ford, a mainly residential area outside Eastleigh.
The raiders’ target was a routine security van delivery of cash at about 10am. Some witnesses said the shooting began after one of the robbers put a gun to a security guard’s head and demanded money. Others reported seeing a third suspect running away, but police were unable to confirm this.
– The Guardian
Euro passports and ID cards could be on the way under new powers written into the EU Treaty, it was disclosed yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that existing safeguards preventing EU interference with national identity documents have been quietly dropped.
– The Telegraph
A Sunni sheikh whose alliance with US forces was held up as a beacon of hope for Iraq was killed by a bomb outside his home yesterday, days after a high-profile meeting with George Bush.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha had been the living embodiment of the cooperation between US forces and local clans in the fight against Sunni extremists in Iraq’s Anbar province. He was so well regarded by America that he was offered an audience with Mr Bush during his six-hour visit to Iraq last week. The pair were photographed shaking hands.
– The Guardian
