Officers are engaged in a standoff with people they say may be armed in the Westwood neighbourhood, Winnipeg police said Thursday morning.

Police arrived around 9:30 a.m. to deal with possibly armed people in the area, a police spokesperson told CBC News. 

A section of Byrd Avenue and Davis Crescent was closed to traffic on Thursday.

Police have pulled at least three people from a house, said a CBC videographer at the scene.