A woman has died after suffering a cardiac arrest in a Hatfield supermarket on Tuesday morning.

At 9.30am today, police and the ambulance service were called to assist a woman in her 90s in Asda in the town centre.

An air ambulance was also called, and was spotted landing on fields at the nearby Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School

Sadly, the woman suffered a cardiac arrest and died at the scene.

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"Her next of kin have been informed," said a Herts police spokeswoman.

"Our thoughts are with the woman’s loved ones at this sad time."