Armed police shot and killed a Suzuki Swift driver after M5 motorway chase following panicked 999 calls saying a man in a car was carrying a handgun

A motorist was shot dead after armed police fired up to ten times through a car window and dragged him out on to the carriageway after being chased off the M5 by police. The man wearing a pale blue tracksuit and white trainers perished on the carriageway of the A369 - known as the The Portbury Hundred near Portishead in Somerset - close to the Gordano motorway services outside Bristol. One witness said the ageing red Suzuki Swift was penned in by at least three unmarked cars and armed officers with handguns surrounded the vehicle at 9.30am and opened fire. Photographs of the dead man's car show it has a gun on its roof, is riddled with bullet holes and its driver's side windows were pulverised (pictured main). Witness David Ellison said: 'Police were ahead of me. They surrounded it [the car]. They shot maybe five, six or ten times. Then they dragged a man from the car to resuscitate him'. Three hours later police confirmed the suspect was dead but refused to say why they shot him. MailOnline understands it was not terror related.