The Ridings: Emergency services called to incident at shopping centre

Emergency services are at The Ridings Shopping Centre this afternoon and have blocked off part of the car park.

A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said they recieved a call at 11.40am today to a report of a concern for a woman’s safety in the car park at The Ridings.

People reported a large police presence and are not being allowed to leave the car park.

She said: “Emergency services are currently in attendance at the location a section of the car park has been blocked off at this time.”

UPDATE: Just after 1.30pm a woman was down and safe. Car park should be reopening as normal.

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