Pensioner 'shot himself dead' in Surrey doctor's surgery

A man in his 80s is understood to have shot himself dead after walking into a doctor's surgery in Surrey on Monday morning.Residents near the Station Road Surgery, in Frimley, near Camberley, reported hearing a loud bang around 10.30am.Two police armed response teams, four police vehicles and an ambulance arrived arrived at the scene shortly afterwards and cordoned off the area.Ed Tse, 25, said he heard "a bang like a gunshot" while working in his father's Chinese takeaway which backs onto the surgery.Mr Tse, from Frimley, said: "I heard a bang around 10.30am and at first I thought it sounded like the bins being collected. "The surgery is always throwing stuff out so hearing the bang of a bin is quite common but this was louder."I went around the corner and there were lots of people and police cars around - it was chaotic."I did think the noise was much louder than the usual bin noise and it sounded like a gun shot."Workers at The Mane Street barbers opposite the surgery said they were told a man had shot himself dead in the lavatories.A female member of staff, who asked not to be named, said: "The first thing we heard was the police sirens screaming as the first of nine cars sped up."Then there were armed police swarming about, the doctor's surgery was closed and nobody was allowed in."I didn't hear a gunshot myself but an elderly couple who had been in the surgery at the time said a man had shot himself."An ambulance turned up outside soon after the police but was turned away, which makes me think it's right that the gentleman died."Everyone in the surgery had to give statements to the police before they could leave."From what I've heard the man shot himself in the toilet or the reception area, not in an appointment."Staff at the surgery, which has been sealed off, refused to comment on the incident.Surrey Police confirmed they were called to reports of a "sudden death".A police officer was stationed by a silver Ford Focus ST parked just 25 yards from the surgery entrance, believed to be the dead man's car.A spokesman said: "Surrey Police was called to a doctor's surgery in Station Road, Frimley just before 11am this morning (Monday, 2 June) following reports of a sudden death."Officers and other emergency services attended the location after reports that a firearm had been discharged inside the building."The body of a man, believed to be in his 80s, was discovered at the scene, where he was pronounced dead."Officers are carrying out a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death but at this stage there is no indication of any third party involvement or wider risk to the local community."A post mortem examination will take place in due course."Adam Wicks, who works at Vickery and Co estate agents in Frimley High Street, which is in the next road, said police officers had asked to see the firm's CCTV footage.Mr Wicks, from Camberley, Surrey, said: "I didn't hear anything myself as we're too far away but there was a lot of commotion at the surgery."There are about six or seven police cars all around the doctor's surgery."The police came in asking about our CCTV but we don't have any and they wouldn't tell us anything."(telegraph.co.uk)Bakudaily.az