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| Alert over petrol station woman | Alert over petrol station woman |
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| Police are negotiating with a 28-year-old woman who is threatening to set herself alight at a petrol station. | Police are negotiating with a 28-year-old woman who is threatening to set herself alight at a petrol station. |
| Emergency services were called to the Red Dragon service station on Cowbridge Road East in the Canton district of the city at 0808 BST on Tuesday. | Emergency services were called to the Red Dragon service station on Cowbridge Road East in the Canton district of the city at 0808 BST on Tuesday. |
| The road has been closed and is cordoned off. The fire services and ambulance are also in attendance. | The road has been closed and is cordoned off. The fire services and ambulance are also in attendance. |
| South Wales Police have confirmed that the woman at the service station has doused herself in petrol. | South Wales Police have confirmed that the woman at the service station has doused herself in petrol. |
| Cowbridge Road East was cordoned off along a half mile stretch from the Ely Bridge roundabout to Victoria Park and police officers were re-directing traffic and pedestrians. | |
| Police said specially-trained negotiaters have been brought in to talk to the woman, who has locked herself into the petrol station and was talking to officers through the night window. | |
| 'Doused herself' | |
| A spokeswoman said it was now a question of sitting and waiting to see what happened. | |
| Two fire engines and one ambulance can be seen next to the garage, as well as police vehicles. | |
| One teenage boy said the woman ran into the petrol station and forced two workers and a customer out. | |
| He said she then locked herself in the office. | |
| He said he recorded footage on his mobile phone but police had now taken it off him. | |
| Cyril Herbert, who was decorating at the nearby Ty-Pwll Coch pub said: "We heard someone threw petrol over themselves. That's all we've heard." | |
| Another witness said: "We've heard a woman doused herself in petrol and was threatening to set fire to herself. They blocked the road off a long time ago." | |
| A man, who did not want to be identified, said the woman was carrying a can of petrol which she poured over herself and then held up a lighter. |