Incident at US base in Britain not terror-related: police

RAF Mildenhall is home to the US Air Force's 100th air refuelling wing and the base was briefly locked down after a car was driven into a checkpoint gate.

"Police investigating an incident at RAF Mildenhall can confirm that the incident is not being treated as terrorism," police said.

The base, which is around 70 miles (110 kilometres) north-east of London, reopened at 2:35 pm (1435 GMT), a spokesman for RAF Mildenhall confirmed.

Local police said they were called at around 1340 GMT to reports of a "disturbance", adding: "The base was put into lockdown and units responded immediately.

"Shots were fired by American service personnel and a man has been detained with cuts and bruises and taken into custody.

"No other people have been injured."

The 44-year-old British man was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass and investigators are not seeking anyone else.

A government source said the incident was sparked by a car trying to force its way through a checkpoint at the base.

Mildenhall was at the centre of a foiled terrorism plot in 2015.

A British man who plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on American military personnel based there was jailed for life last year.

Junead Khan, who was a committed supporter of the IS group had used his job as a delivery driver for a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout several US Air Force bases in eastern England between May and July 2015, including Mildenhall.