About 7.20am yesterday (Wednesday 2 September 2015), police received reports that shots had been fired at a home on Old Grafton Road, Diehard, about 50km east of Glen Innes.

Investigators attended the location and were told that a number of shots had been allegedly fired during the previous evening, hitting a building.

Specialist police were called after a man allegedly barricaded himself in a home.

After approximately eight hours, a 35-year-old man was arrested.

He is currently in hospital undergoing assessment.

No one was injured during the incident.