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Man kills himself in Woolworths | |
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A man brandishing a knife slashed himself across the throat in a Cornish town's Woolworths store. | |
Penzance shoppers fled in panic as the man entered the store at about 1500 BST on Thursday. | |
An ambulance service spokesman said the 23-year-old local man died within minutes after sustaining self-inflicted arm and throat injuries. | |
A police spokesman called it "horrific for everyone watching". Nobody else was involved in the incident. | |
Died 'in minutes' | |
According to a South West Ambulance spokesman the man entered the store and began walking up and down the aisles waving the knife about. | |
Woolworths staff quickly cleared customers from the shop and alerted the police and ambulance services. | |
By the time an ambulance crew arrived at the scene, the man had slashed his throat and had already died. | |
The ambulance spokesman added said: "Unfortunately the man died within minutes." | |
A spokeswoman for Woolworths said the store would remain closed on Friday. | |
She said: "Yesterday's events were extremely disturbing for our colleagues and our priority now is to ensure their welfare and we are supporting them in every way possible. | |
"We will only reopen the store when we feel it is right to do so and our staff will have our ongoing support." |
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