Two people were killed in a shooting at one of central London's most exclusive department stores last night.
Two people were killed in a shooting incident at exclusive department store Harvey Nichols in London last night
A man and a woman, both aged about 30, were pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting at the Harvey Nichols store in the upmarket Knightsbridge area.
A police source said it appeared the gunman killed himself after shooting the woman on the ground floor of the shop, known as the store of choice for Britain's rich and famous.
"No one else is being sought in connection with this incident," he said. Police would not comment on reports that the pair had been in a relationship.
No details of the dead will be released until their families have been informed, a police spokesman said.
An eyewitness told the BBC that police had informed staff the gunman was a security guard who used to work at the shop.
"The waitress we spoke to had apparently been informed by police ... that it was an ex-security guard who had walked into Harvey Nichols, shot dead one of the girls behind the make-up counter and then shot himself," Charlotte O'Leary told the BBC.
The shooting happened at 7:45 p.m., about 15 minutes before the store was due to close.
Harvey Nichols, which sells designer clothes, jewelry and food, traces its roots back to a linen shop which opened in Knightsbridge in 1813.
The late Princess Diana was among its most famous customers before her death in a Paris car crash in 1997.