Avon and Somerset Police said it was called to reports of a woman approaching people in Stall Street in Bath at about 14:30 BST. Two people were experiencing breathing difficulties and itchy eyes. Two people were taken to hospital after a possible chemical attack in Bath city centre.
A police cordon was in place in the city following the incident, in which a woman reportedly "approached. Police said a man suffered a bleed on the brain and a fractured jaw in the attack in Bath in March. A 73-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of administering an unknown noxious substance, following an incident that left a woman in hospital.
Emergency services were called to Stall St in. The term Bath Blitz refers to the air raids by the German Luftwaffe on the British city of Bath, Somerset, during World War II. The city was bombed in April 1942 as part of the so-called "Baedeker raids", in which targets were chosen for their cultural and historical, rather than their strategic or military, value.
Police donned hazmat suits as they responded to what some feared was a chemical attack on Stall Street, in Bath city centre around 2.30pm yesterday. A police spokesperson said: "Emergency services are responding to an incident in Bath. "At about 2.30pm a woman approached people with a bag in Stall Street, leading to some individuals then.
TWO people were hospitalised in Bath after a woman thought to be carrying a bag approached them in a suspected chemical attack. Emergency services rushed to the scene and put a cordon in place on S. Bath 'chemical attack' LIVE: Major incident sees people fall ill in city centre A woman reportedly approached people with a "bag".
Police are searching for a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing in the south of Bath. The victim, in his late teens, is in a stable condition in hospital after the assault at a the playground.