AN AIR ambulance assisted the police during an incident at a block of high-rise flats in Flintshire.

The incident occurred at about 12pm at Castle Heights in Flint on Tuesday (August 15).

North Wales Police described it as a "concern for safety incident". 

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called yesterday at approximately 12.11pm to reports of an incident in Flint.

“We sent one emergency ambulance, two Cymru high acuity response units and one air ambulance to the scene where we were assisted by colleagues from the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service who travelled by road."

A North Wales Police spokesperson said: "We were called at 12.20pm by colleagues at the Welsh Ambulance Service reporting a concern for safety in the Castle Heights area of Flint."

They were unable to provide any further information at this stage.