Police in Noord-Brabant are continuing to investigate a double shooting at a jewellery store in the village of Deurne on Friday evening.

Two men, believed to be armed robbers, were shot dead in the incident but details of what happened remain sketchy.

The shop owner was taken to hospital with what some sources say was a gunshot wound to his hand.

Sources told the Telegraaf the owner’s wife may have seen that ‘something was up’ on closed circuit television at her home next to the shop and then gone to intervene. She is reported to be the shooter in several papers.

Police have told the paper they did not use their guns. ‘We continue to view this as an attempt at self-defence during a robbery,’ a police spokesman told Radio 1.

The shop, Goldies, was attacked by armed robbers in 2010, the Telegraaf said.