B.C. premier has Vancouver gun scare

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 5 (UPI) -- The premier of British Columbia, Canada, had an interview in Vancouver disrupted when a woman with a gun ran past the hotel he was visiting, police said.

Gordon Campbell and his assistant had just sat down at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel Monday afternoon for an interview with the Vancouver Sun when the premier's Royal Canadian Mounted Police bodyguard shouted for Campbell to take cover in a nearby private dining room.

Outside the luxury hotel, police searched for an armed woman who witnesses said jumped into a taxi. Police determined the woman had been part of an armed robbery at a jewelry store minutes before she ran by the hotel, the Sun said.

As the area was sealed off, the RCMP guard escorted Campbell and his assistant out a back service door of the hotel and they were driven away without incident, the report said.

Police found the cab and arrested the woman, but were still searching Tuesday for a male accomplice.

No injuries were reported during the robbery or arrest, police said.