One person has been killed, and three others have been injured during a series of incidents involving a firearm on the Isle of Skye.
Emergency services rushed to the scene after receiving reports of a woman, 32, being found seriously injured in Tarskavaig in the Scottish Highlands before 9am on Wednesday.
The woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment.
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Officers were then called to the Teangue area of the island at 9.30am after a gun was fired.
Emergency services attended, but a 47-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police attended a property in the Dornie area in Wester Ross after further gunshots were heard.
A man was found with serious injuries and was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, and a woman, whose condition is unknown, was taken to Broadford Hospital.
A 39-year-old man has since been arrested in connection with the three incidents, which police believe are linked.
The suspect has also been taken to Raigmore Hospital.
Kate Forbes, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch, said the news is "one of the worst days that I can recall in the history of Skye and Lochalsh."
Chief Superintendent Conrad Trickett, local policing commander for Highlands and Islands Division, said: "We will be working with partners to provide support to the local community.
"I would like to reassure people that we are treating these incidents as contained with no wider threat to the public."
A spokesperson for the Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed four people were taken to hospital following the incidents.
The rescue operation saw multiple ambulances, air ambulances and special rapid retrieval emergency teams, which are only summoned for incidents in rural locations when people are in critical need of medical attention.
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