Overview
- Officers and paramedics responded to the Orbital Shopping Park Asda around 2pm on 9 January, with a police scene later lifted.
- South Western Ambulance Service logged a 14:47 call and dispatched a land ambulance, an air ambulance, an operations officer and a first responder.
- A woman in her 20s was conveyed by land ambulance to Great Western Hospital with injuries to her legs not thought to be life‑changing.
- Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue reported a Stratton crew attended at 14:56 and required no action before stopping at 15:28.
- Eyewitness reports described self‑immolation outside the store, which remains unconfirmed by official accounts.