<p>Scottish police on Friday said armed officers shot dead a suspect in an incident in the city of Glasgow that left six others injured, including one of their colleagues.</p>.<p>"The individual who was shot by armed police has died," said Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson, of Police Scotland, in a statement.</p>.<p>"Six other people are in hospital for treatment to their injuries, including a police officer, who is in a critical but stable condition."</p>.<p>The incident happened in and around a Park Inn hotel on West George Street, in the heart of the city. Several roads were closed and the surrounding area was cordoned off.</p>.<p>Positive Action in Housing, a homelessness and human rights charity, tweeted that the hotel was being used to house asylum seekers during the coronavirus outbreak.</p>.<p>Johnson said the suspect shot by police was male but did not say how the officer was injured, after reports he was stabbed.</p>.<p>The incident, which Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called "truly dreadful", was "contained" and there was no risk to the general public, he added.</p>.<p>The incident comes less than a week after three people were stabbed to death in a park in Reading, southeast England, that police were treating as terror-related.</p>.<p>A 25-year-old man widely said to be a Libyan asylum seeker was arrested in connection with the random stabbing that killed three friends.</p>.<p>UK interior minister Priti Patel called the situation in Scotland "deeply alarming" while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened by the terrible incident".</p>.<p>"My thoughts are with all the victims and their families," he tweeted.</p>.<p>Videos shared on social media showed armed police in plain clothes on West George Street.</p>.<p>Television footage also appeared to show several people being frogmarched out of the hotel, with their hands above their heads.</p>.<p>One witness quoted by the domestic Press Association news agency said he saw one man lying on the ground without shoes, and someone was holding his side.</p>.<p>"I don't know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was," said Craig Milroy, who works in an office nearby.</p>.<p>He said the man was one of four people he saw taken away by paramedics.</p>.<p>"After that we saw commotion, ambulances further up and we saw armed police all running into the hotel next to the Society Room (pub)," the witness said.</p>.<p>"We were still standing outside, after that the police all came down, the riot police and triage team told us to go back in and lock the door."</p>.<p>Another witness, who gave her name as Louisa, told Sky News television she saw "people being treated with blood on the ground".</p>.<p>"I saw people running out of the hotel with the police shouting, 'put your hands up, put your hands up, come out'," she added.</p>.<p>"There were police cars, ambulances all over the street and they cordoned it off.</p>.<p>"Police were shouting to people in other buildings near the Park Inn hotel to stay inside and not come into the street."</p>
<p>Scottish police on Friday said armed officers shot dead a suspect in an incident in the city of Glasgow that left six others injured, including one of their colleagues.</p>.<p>"The individual who was shot by armed police has died," said Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson, of Police Scotland, in a statement.</p>.<p>"Six other people are in hospital for treatment to their injuries, including a police officer, who is in a critical but stable condition."</p>.<p>The incident happened in and around a Park Inn hotel on West George Street, in the heart of the city. Several roads were closed and the surrounding area was cordoned off.</p>.<p>Positive Action in Housing, a homelessness and human rights charity, tweeted that the hotel was being used to house asylum seekers during the coronavirus outbreak.</p>.<p>Johnson said the suspect shot by police was male but did not say how the officer was injured, after reports he was stabbed.</p>.<p>The incident, which Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called "truly dreadful", was "contained" and there was no risk to the general public, he added.</p>.<p>The incident comes less than a week after three people were stabbed to death in a park in Reading, southeast England, that police were treating as terror-related.</p>.<p>A 25-year-old man widely said to be a Libyan asylum seeker was arrested in connection with the random stabbing that killed three friends.</p>.<p>UK interior minister Priti Patel called the situation in Scotland "deeply alarming" while Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened by the terrible incident".</p>.<p>"My thoughts are with all the victims and their families," he tweeted.</p>.<p>Videos shared on social media showed armed police in plain clothes on West George Street.</p>.<p>Television footage also appeared to show several people being frogmarched out of the hotel, with their hands above their heads.</p>.<p>One witness quoted by the domestic Press Association news agency said he saw one man lying on the ground without shoes, and someone was holding his side.</p>.<p>"I don't know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was," said Craig Milroy, who works in an office nearby.</p>.<p>He said the man was one of four people he saw taken away by paramedics.</p>.<p>"After that we saw commotion, ambulances further up and we saw armed police all running into the hotel next to the Society Room (pub)," the witness said.</p>.<p>"We were still standing outside, after that the police all came down, the riot police and triage team told us to go back in and lock the door."</p>.<p>Another witness, who gave her name as Louisa, told Sky News television she saw "people being treated with blood on the ground".</p>.<p>"I saw people running out of the hotel with the police shouting, 'put your hands up, put your hands up, come out'," she added.</p>.<p>"There were police cars, ambulances all over the street and they cordoned it off.</p>.<p>"Police were shouting to people in other buildings near the Park Inn hotel to stay inside and not come into the street."</p>