12/02/2015

Armed Man Tasered By Police Outside Manchester Primary School

Police in Manchester has used a Taser on an armed man outside a primary school.

It is understood that police were called after a man had started shouting at parents waiting to collect children. The man is said to have pushed a women to the ground outside St Luke's CE School in Longsight on Wednesday afternoon.

Police said that when they arrived at the scene the man had left, but then returned carrying two knives.

Police shot the man with a Taser stun gun and placed him under arrest on suspicion of affray.

(MH/JP)

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