Road closures continue after man shot by police
UKNIPRoad closures were continuing while officers searched an area where a man who was believed to be wielding a chainsaw and wearing a gas mask was shot by police in Kent.
The man was shot on Monday evening at a property in Ashford Road (A20), Hollingbourne, after officers arrived to arrest a man in his mid-30s on suspicion of assault.
While the road had initially reopened following the incident, it was closed again as searches were carried out and on Thursday officers found four "suspicious devices" at the scene.
On Friday, Kent Police said intermittent road closures of the A20 would continue throughout the day while an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team carried out searches of the area.
Kent Police previously said the incident was not related to terrorism, and the man who was shot had suffered life-changing, not life-threatening, injuries.
Police bodycam footage of the shooting had shown a man wielding a chainsaw and holding another item, which officers believed at the time to be an improvised explosive device, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
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