UPDATE: Wiltshire Police have now clarified that there were two separate incidents on Bath Road with a post on the Swindon Police Facebook page.

There was a raid on a property as police searched for a wanted person just after 6.30pm and then later on the same road police responded to the burglary report as detailed below.

The updated statement posted at 3pm from a Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: "Officers carried out a warrant for a wanted person at a property at around 6.30pm yesterday (Friday) in Bath Road, Swindon.

"The person was not located and enquires are continuing to locate them.

"Later that evening, around 11pm we also responded to reports of a burglary in process at a property in Bath Road.

"Enquiries are continuing and no arrests have been made as yet."

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A SWINDON road was dramatically closed following reports of a burglary in process.

Bath Road, in Old Town, was shut entirely to the public from Goddard Avenue to the top of Eascott Hill roundabout at 11pm on Friday night.

Wiltshire Police has now confirmed this is because it was responding to a suspected crime in progress.

The force quickly shut off access to the road as they attended to the property allegedly being targeted. 

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Reports of the road closure were made on social media and some members of the public have shared videos that show loud noises, which some had claimed were possibly gunshots. 

However, a police spokesman did not confirm any gunshots or the involvement of any firearms in a statement provided to this newspaper on Saturday morning. 

He said: "We responded to reports of a burglary in process at a property in Bath Road, Swindon at around 11pm yesterday (Friday).

"Enquiries are continuing and no arrests have been made as yet."