A royal navy serviceman has been found dead at a high-security nuclear submarine base.
Police are probing the “unexplained” death at the Faslane naval base in Scotland.
Emergency services were called to Her Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde at around 12.30pm yesterday following the serviceman’s mystery death.
A Royal Navy spokesman said: “We are aware of an incident and cannot comment further at this stage.”
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “A post-mortem examination will be carried out to establish the exact cause of death, which is currently being treated as unexplained.
“A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
Faslane is the Navy’s headquarters in Scotland.
It houses the core of the submarine service and the next generation of hunter-killer submarines.
This includes four Vanguard-class nuclear-armed submarines which carry Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles.
The base is located on Gare Loch outside the village of Garelochhead, near Helensburgh.