A MAN has been arrested after firing an air powered pellet gun in a hospital accident and emergency department.
Police were called to Sunderland Royal Hospital at 5.30pm tonight to reports that a man was threatening to harm himself. He then fired the weapon at a wall.
Hospital staff detained him until Northumbria Police firearms officers arrived.
A police spokeswoman said a 50-year-old Sunderland man was arrested in connection with firearms offences.
No-one was injured.
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