A man has been taken to hospital after the air ambulance was called to a medical emergency in a west Suffolk market town. 

Emergency services were called to an incident in the St Andrews Steet area in Bury St Edmunds at about 1.50pm on Thursday. 

Photographs taken from the scene show multiple ambulances, as well as police officers, on the scene. 

A spokesman for Suffolk police said the road was closed while emergency services assisted a man. 

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A spokeswoman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 1.46pm with reports of a person in cardiac arrest in Brentgovel Street, Bury St Edmunds. 

"We sent the East Anglian Air Ambulance, two ambulances and an ambulance officer vehicle. 

"One person was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge for further care."