A 33-year-old man has died in Newport city centre following an incident which involved a heavy police presence. Multiple police vehicles attended the Kingsway outside the city’s large multi-storey car park at around 2.45pm on Monday, August 22.
Officers attended alongside paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service but the man died at the scene. The incident closed the Kingsway while buses temporarily used Usk Way.
At 4.22pm Kingsway was reopened in both directions and traffic returned to normal at Commercial Street and Lower Dock Street. At 4.30pm a spokesman for Gwent Police confirmed the man had died.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said: “We were called today at 2.44pm to reports of an incident on Kingsway, Newport. We sent one emergency ambulance, one duty operations manager, and two rapid response vehicles to the scene where we were supported by our emergency medical retrieval and transfer service colleagues.”
A Gwent Police spokesman said: "We received a report that a man had fallen from the Kingsway car park in Newport city centre at around 2.45pm on Monday, August 22. Officers attended along with personnel from the Welsh Ambulance Service who confirmed that a 33-year-old man had died at the scene."
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