A manhunt has been launched after a police woman was shot and injured in Leeds.
West Yorkshire Police are looking for James Leslie, 37, in connection with the incident which took place shortly after 4am in the Hyde Park area.
Two uniformed officers attended a ''routine call'' to a disturbance and were confronted by a man at the address who fired at them.
''One female officer received serious but non life threatening injuries. A male officer was uninjured. The female officer is currently undergoing treatment in hospital,'' said a police spokesman.
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03 Dec 2013Amanda Fawcett, an employee at Greggs bakery on Cardigan Road, said the area was popular with students from Leeds University.
"I've been working at Greggs for eight years and I've never seen anything like this before," she said.
"It's an area really popular with students."
She witnessed the aftermath of the incident as she arrived at work around 7.30am.
"I got off my bus, walked around the corner and saw loads of tape around a really big old house on the road.
"There was an ambulance and loads of police. I knew something really bad had happened because there was all that tape and loads of officers."
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Ned Liddemore, vice chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation, described the incident as "a cowardly attack".
He said: "This was a cowardly attack on two unarmed police officers dealing with a so called 'routine' call.
"As has been shown in the early hours of this morning there is no such thing as a routine call when it comes to police officers.
"Yet again the dangers faced by our colleagues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, has been made abundantly clear.
"When the public of West Yorkshire are sound asleep in their beds, our officers are still our there doing there
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