Local officials in Palm Beach in Florida say it happened in the grounds of his golf course while he was playing.

An AK-47 assault rifle has apparently been recovered and a man is in custody while Tom Bateman is live in Washington with the very latest for us now.

Tom, what more have you got?

Well, what is clear so far, Clive, is that this happened three hours ago as Donald Trump was playing golf.

He was said to be between holes at his private course on West Palm Beach in Florida.

Now, law enforcement officials say that multiple gunshots were heard at that moment and the Secret Service detail that was protecting him at the time returned fire.

However, there was a suspect that was seen and then seemed to flee, to run away from the scene.

Now, law enforcement officials say they have recovered a weapon and a scope from the scene there and they are at the moment around a wooded area on the edge of that golf course.

Now, separately, the local sheriff in West Palm County says that they closed the interstate highway after this, trying to find what they described as a suspect.

They have stopped a car and detained a person that they say is of interest.

That person now in the custody of the FBI and the car itself is being searched.

Now, what had been unclear until a few moments ago is whether or not Donald Trump was the intended target of this apparent shooting.

Some U.S. media were reporting unnamed law enforcement officials saying that he was the intended target, but that matter seems to have been cleared up in the last few minutes as the FBI have put out a very short statement saying that they are investigating this as an attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

What that means is we have now witnessed what is potentially the second attempt on the former president's life during this election campaign.

Remember, it was just over two months ago that a 20-year-old man tried to kill him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

That led to the resignation of the director of the Secret Service over failures in that.

Now, Donald Trump himself, his motorcade, has been seen leaving the resort there and heading to Mar-a-Lago, which is just a few miles away, his resort in Florida.

And Donald Trump himself has given a short statement in a campaign fundraising email.

He has said, He says,