A 33-year-old man has died in Newport city centre following an incident which involved a heavy police presence. Multiple police vehicles attended the Kingsway outside the city’s large multi-storey car park at around 2.45pm on Monday, August 22.
Officers attended alongside paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service but the man died at the scene. The incident closed the Kingsway while buses temporarily used Usk Way.
At 4.22pm Kingsway was reopened in both directions and traffic returned to normal at Commercial Street and Lower Dock Street. At 4.30pm a spokesman for Gwent Police confirmed the man had died.
