A community is in shock after two women were seriously injured in an attack involving a crossbow in Leeds.
Counter-terrorism police are investigating the incident, which happened on Otley Road, in the Headingley area, at about 14.47 BST on Saturday.
Three persons were found injured and taken to hospital including the suspected attacker on the popular Otley Run pub crawl route.
A 38-year-old man who suffered a “self-inflicted injury” was arrested and two weapons, a crossbow and a firearm were recovered from the scene.
“When I arrived, I drove down St Anne’s Road and there were cordons and quite a few police cars,” he said.
“I walked further down to have a look and there were a couple of ambulances.”
He said he saw somebody being treated by paramedics further up Otley Road and said he saw “a couple of distressed individuals, students mostly, talking about somebody being hurt”.
Mr Balampanos added the ambulance then left the scene with blue lights on and the area was cordoned off.
“It was quite scary,” he said.
“Generally, this is a quiet area but we have plenty of people doing the Otley Run and going to the pub. It can get busy sometimes.”
BBC / Titilayo Kupoliyi
