The FBI it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump” after a series of shots were fired at Mr Trump’s golf course in Florida.
Mr Trump’s campaign team said that the former president is “safe following gunshots in his vicinity.”
A person has been detained in connection with an incident at Trump International Golf Club.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Tom Bateman.
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Mr Trump’s campaign team said that the former president is “safe following gunshots in his vicinity.”
A person has been detained in connection with an incident at Trump International Golf Club.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Tom Bateman.
#BBCNews
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00:00Donald Trump says he's safe and well after reports of gunshots described to have been fired in his vicinity
00:07local officials in Palm Beach in Florida say it happened in the grounds of his golf course while he was playing an
00:13AK-47 assault rifle has apparently been recovered and a man is in custody
00:17Well, Tom Bateman is live in Washington with the very latest for us now Tom. What more have you got?
00:23Well, what is clear so far Clive is that this happened three hours ago as Donald Trump was playing golf
00:29He was said to be between holes at his private course on West Palm Beach in Florida
00:36Now law enforcement officials say that multiple gunshots were heard at that moment and the Secret Service
00:43Detailed that was protecting him at the time returned fire
00:47There was a suspect that was seen and then seemed to seem to flee to run away from the scene now law enforcement
00:53Officials say they have recovered a weapon and a scope from the scene there and they are at the moment
00:59Around a wooded area on the edge of that golf course now separately the local sheriff in West Palm County
01:07Says that they closed the interstate highway after this trying to find what they described as a suspect
01:12They have stopped a car and detained a person that they say is of interest
01:18That person now in the custody of the FBI and the car itself is being searched
01:23Now what had been unclear until a few moments ago is whether or not Donald Trump was the intended target of this
01:30apparent shooting some US media were reporting
01:34Unnamed law enforcement officials saying that he was the intended target
01:38But that matter seems to have been cleared up in the last few minutes as the FBI have put out a very short statement
01:44Saying that they are investigating this as an attempted assassination of Donald Trump
01:50What that means is we have now witnessed what is potentially the second attempt on the former president's life
01:56During this election campaign. Remember it was just over two months ago that a 20 year old man tried to kill him at a rally in Butler
02:04Pennsylvania that led to the resignation of the director of the Secret Service's over failures in that
02:10Now Donald Trump himself is motorcade has been seen leaving the resort there and heading to Mar-a-Lago
02:18Which is just a few miles away his resort in Florida
02:20And Donald Trump himself has given a short statement in a campaign fundraising email
02:26He has said there were gunshots in my vicinity
02:28But before the rumors spiral out of control
02:30I wanted you to hear this. I am safe and well. Nothing will slow me down. He says I will never surrender