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A Birmingham street was sealed off by police late on Thursday night amid reports a man was arrested in a major operation.

Video posted on Facebook showed Ivor Road in Sparkhill cordoned off with a marked West Midlands Police patrol car also restricting access from the junction with Showell Green Lane.

Earlier, multiple videos sent to BirminghamLive showed a man in a red jacket being detained by at least six officers.

The nature of the police operation was not immediately clear as no comment was available from the West Midlands force.

Earlier this week, police confirmed a property in Sparkhill was among three searched in the massive manhunt for double murder suspect Janbaz Tarin.

He is wanted in connection with the deaths of mother-and-daughter Raneem Oudeh, 22, and Khaola Saleem, 49.

The pair were fatally stabbed in Northdown Road, Solihull, in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday.

BirminghamLive understands that Ms Oudeh and Tarin, 21, were married in Islamic law.

On Wednesday, a senior detective said he believed the suspect, an Afghan national, was still in Britain .

Det Chief Supt Mark Payne, head of Force CID at West Midlands Police, told Birmingham Live : “I believe he’s still in the country and is likely to be in the Midlands area.

“Also, it’s very difficult to go underground without the support from someone else.

“It might be that he’s able to do that but we often find in these type of cases that they’ve got a network of people who are helping them."

A £5,000 Crimestoppers reward was issued for information leading to an arrest.

Mr Payne said: “We are working with Crimestoppers to offer a £5,000 reward to anybody who may help us with the location of Janbaz Tarin

“So if Mr Tarin is watching this: ‘Hand yourself in. We will find you’.

“If there is anybody who is working or assisting Mr Tarin to evade our custody then please be aware, you may be committing criminal offences.

“Again, we will find Mr Tarin, we will find you, don’t do it, hand Mr Tarin in to us and we will take it from there.”