A man has died after he was shot by police in Huddersfield near the M62 motorway, West Yorkshire Police says.
The man was shot during a "pre-planned operation" at around 6pm, a spokesman said.
The slip roads east and west bound at junction 24 of the M62 remain closed.
The case is being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which said its investigators were at the scene.
Gemma Wilson, Lindley Councillor, told Sky News: "I assumed at first it was a crash but realised if it was, it was a major one due to the volume of police in the area and the wide area that was cordoned off.
"It was obviously concerning to see so many police cars as clearly something serious had happened so close to home".
"I saw about five or six police cars around the roundabout," she added.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Around 6pm this evening (...) during a pre-planned policing operation near to the M62 in Huddersfield a police firearm was discharged and a man has died."
West Yorkshire Police are "fully cooperating" with the IPCC investigation, he added.
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