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| Three found dead after 'shooting' | |
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| A murder inquiry has begun into the deaths of a teenager and two men after reports of a shooting at a house in Hertfordshire. | |
| Police sealed off the home in Plaw Hatch Close, Bishop's Stortford, after emergency services were called to the property late on Tuesday night. | Police sealed off the home in Plaw Hatch Close, Bishop's Stortford, after emergency services were called to the property late on Tuesday night. |
| The three victims were believed to be a 17-year-old boy and two men, aged 33 and 52, police said. | |
| One neighbour said she thought a young girl was in the house when it happened. | |
| She obviously was there when it happened, the poor little thing Lynne Walford, neighbour | |
| Lynne Walford, said she saw the girl, aged about seven, being taken out of the house by police. | |
| "I felt quite guilty because I didn't know there were young children there but she looked fine," she said. | |
| "She obviously was there when it happened, the poor little thing." | |
| Richard Guy, who lives near the scene of the shooting, told BBC News: "I came back from the pub about twelve o'clock and, yeah, there was police here. | |
| "I mean, before I went out I heard a bang and a car speed off quite quickly but it's something that I hear round here quite regularly so I didn't really expect it to be anything, anything bad. | "I mean, before I went out I heard a bang and a car speed off quite quickly but it's something that I hear round here quite regularly so I didn't really expect it to be anything, anything bad. |
| "I've only been here since December. For something to this extent to happen already - it's quite a shock to everyone I think." | "I've only been here since December. For something to this extent to happen already - it's quite a shock to everyone I think." |
| Dean O'Connell, who also lives in the close, said: "You don't expect it somewhere like this, but this estate is renowned for a little bit of drugs - most of the trouble here, I imagine, is because of drugs." | |
| Forensic experts were working at the scene and police have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries since the incident, witnesses said. | Forensic experts were working at the scene and police have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries since the incident, witnesses said. |
| A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "We were called to the house at 9.40pm - on arrival, three men were pronounced dead at the scene." | A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "We were called to the house at 9.40pm - on arrival, three men were pronounced dead at the scene." |
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