A man has died after being shot in north London by police carrying out an “intelligence led operation”.

Home  - Police confirmed the shooting was not related to terrorism.

Armed officers attended the area of Bracknell Close in Wood Green, the Metropolitan Police said, and a man was shot at about 9am.

London’s Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service were both called to the scene.

A Metropolitan Police Service spokesman confirmed shortly after 10.30am that the man had died.

“Intelligence led operation”: Armed police were called to the Bracknell Close area in Wood Green Jeremy Selwyn
A witness, who lives nearby, said they were first aware of the police incident at about 9.30am after hearing the noise of a helicopter landing in a park in White Hart Lane.

They told the Standard: "Then I saw three or four red suited person running out of the park and I followed to the scene.

"[It was] all cordoned off with tape and a police car."

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