A 68-year-old man has been detained for mental health treatment after arrows were fired in a Skelmanthorpe street, damaging several vehicles.

Police were called to Huddersfield Road in Skelmanthorpe at 5.37pm following reports of a bow and arrow being fired in the street.

A number of vehicles were struck by arrows and damaged during the incident, but nobody was injured.

A 68-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

He was initially taken into police custody before later being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.

The man was taken to hospital for an assessment and has since been detained for mental health treatment.

Detectives from Kirklees District CID are continuing their enquiries into the incident, with a police scene remaining in place at an address on Huddersfield Road.

Superintendent Zaheer Abbas, of Kirklees District, said: “This incident will have understandably caused significant concern to those directly involved and more widely in the close-knit community of Skelmanthorpe.

“Our work to reassure the community is continuing through the local neighbourhood policing team, and we hope our update that the suspect has now been detained for mental health treatment will help to give people some useful context.

“That should obviously not detract from the seriousness of this incident and the harm that could have been caused, and we would like to recognise the actions of the members of the public who intervened to help bring this incident to a safe conclusion.”