Six Injured, Including Police Officer, and Suspect Is Fatally Shot in Glasgow

Six people, including a police officer, were injured and a male suspect was fatally shot by the police in an incident in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Friday, according to the Scottish police.

The injured people were taken to the hospital, and the police officer was in critical but stable condition, the police said.

Images shared on social media showed at least a dozen police vehicles and armed officers swarming on the scene in an area of the city that is filled with shops, restaurants and hotels.

Steve Johnson, assistant chief constable of the Greater Glasgow police, said in a statement that while police officers remained at the scene, the situation was under control and the police were not currently looking for any other suspects.

“Armed police officers attended the incident and I can confirm that a male suspect was shot by an armed officer,” he said, in a statement posted to Twitter. “I can also confirm that a police officer was injured while dealing with the incident and that officer is receiving treatment in hospital.”

The Scottish Police Federation said on Twitter that an officer had been stabbed and that the person’s family had been notified, though few additional details about the attack were immediately available.

Footage shared by LBC, a British radio station, showed people being evacuated from the Park Inn Hotel on West George Street, and other videos shared on social media showed the area around the hotel being cordoned off by police.

Additional images showed a man who appeared to be injured lying on the steps at the entrance of the hotel in a pool of blood.

Craig Milroy, who witnessed the aftermath of the incident from a nearby office building, told The Associated Press that he saw four people taken away in ambulances and a wounded man lying on the ground.

“He was on the ground with someone holding his side,” Mr. Milroy said. “I don’t know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was.”

Police officers then rushed by and told Mr. Milroy to go back inside and lock the door. A portion of the street around the hotel remained closed and people were asked to avoid the area.

It was unclear whether the incident bore any terrorist motive. Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, said on Twitter that reports from the scene were “dreadful.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was “deeply saddened” and thanked the emergency services for their response, in a post on Twitter.

Britain has faced a string of stabbing attacks in recent years, several of which have been called terror attacks. On Saturday, a man killed three people in a stabbing attack in Reading, west of London, in what the British authorities have described as a terrorist incident. In February, a man was killed after he stabbed several people in south London, officials said, and in November, a former prisoner who had recently been released after he was convicted of terrorism offenses fatally stabbed two people around London Bridge.