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Shootings leave six people hurt | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Six people were hurt in two separate shootings in London within hours of each other. | |
In the first attack three teenagers, two aged 17 and one aged 18, were shot in Well Street, Hackney, east London, at 2150 GMT on Friday. | |
All three were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. | |
Hours later, a gunman "randomly" shot a 44-year-old woman and two men, aged 30 and 35, outside the North Pole pub in Greenwich, south-east London. | |
Drive-by shooting | |
They were taken to hospital where they are all in a stable non-life threatening condition. | They were taken to hospital where they are all in a stable non-life threatening condition. |
The two attacks are not being linked by police. | |
The Metropolitan Police said the three victims in Greenwich were not deliberately targeted. | |
"It is understood that a car had pulled up outside the venue and a white suspect had got out and fired shots randomly," said a Met police spokesman. | "It is understood that a car had pulled up outside the venue and a white suspect had got out and fired shots randomly," said a Met police spokesman. |
"None of the victims are thought to have been targeted deliberately. | "None of the victims are thought to have been targeted deliberately. |
"There was a scuffle and the suspect then jumped back into the car, driven by another male, and left the scene." | "There was a scuffle and the suspect then jumped back into the car, driven by another male, and left the scene." |
No arrests have been made in either case. |