It's thought a murder suspect called police to a fake burglary - before two female officers were shot dead in Manchester this morning.

PCs Nicola Hughes, who was 23 - and Fiona Bone, aged 32 - were attacked with a gun and a grenade during a routine call-out ... after which wanted man Dale Cregan handed himself in to a police station and was arrested.

Bomb disposal experts are also believed to have carried out a control explosion at the scene this afternoon.

Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy's called it one of his British policing's "darkest
days".