Po­lice are the scene of a shoot­ing where a ban­dit was shot dead.

So far, po­lice were told that two gun­men walked in­to Mar­shall's Bar at the cor­ner of Cipero and Sut­ton Streets, San Fer­nan­do some­time this morn­ing and an­nounced a hold-up.

As the armed men at­tempt­ed to rob pa­trons in the bar, one of them, said to be a for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer, drew his li­censed firearm and opened fire on the gun­men.

A shootout took place and one of the ban­dits was shot dead.

The oth­er es­caped.

None of the pa­trons were in­jured.

Of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm from the dead ban­dit who is yet to be iden­ti­fied.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.