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A star of Trainspotting T2 is feared dead last night after being gunned down in a city street.

Bradley Welsh, former Hibs casual turned charity worker, is understood to be have been shot in the head in the west end of Edinburgh.

The 42-year-old dad played gangland kingpin Doyle in T2 and is pals with its author Irvine Welsh.

His condition was unknown last night but sources said he had suffered “life-threatening” wounds to the head.

Armed police and paramedics flooded the scene on the city’s Chester Street after the incident around 8.30pm.

The area was put on lockdown and residents were told to stay indoors, eyewitnesses said.

Welsh is a past British ABA Lightweight boxing champion and has run charity projects in the city to help young people stay fit and out of trouble through his Holyrood Boxing Gym.

He’s also involved with Edinburgh charity Helping Hands which fights inequality in the city.

In 2009 he appeared on Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men TV show.

Last night police confirmed they were dealing with an ongoing incident but gave no further details.

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Writing on social media, local resident Alasdair Morton, 46, said: “I came out the house and we were told to go back in. Around three police cars and a black van drove along the street and the traffic then stopped.

“I initially thought it was a police escort then when I had a look there must have been a dozen or so police with guns pushing the traffic back.

“We’ve not been told anything but police waved through some ambulances.

“They said ‘there’s a gunshot wound to the head somewhere’.

“We could still hear noises that suggested there was a situation still going on.”

Armed officers raced to Chester Street in the city’s west end around 8.30pm and part of the road is cordoned off.

A source told the Record a man suffered ‘serious wounds to the head’ and residents were instructed to stay indoors.

Police confirmed they were dealing with an ongoing incident but gave no further details.