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Westfield Stratford Breitling store in axe attack raid | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
A gang of robbers armed with axes and hammers smashed through the front of an upmarket watch store in east London as members of the public ran "screaming" from the scene. | |
The Breitling shop on the ground floor of the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford was attacked at 00:05 BST. | |
Police said four men smashed the window of the store while a fifth waited in a vehicle outside. | |
A Taser was used on one of the suspects and five men have been arrested. | |
'Big bald guy' | |
Police said the man shot with the Taser did not require hospital treatment. | |
Adam Hughes, who was in the shopping centre at the time, said: "Me and my girlfriend were coming down the escalators from the cinema with a bunch of other people near Primark and we saw a big bald white guy running into Primark. | |
"We then heard banging noises, noises that sounded like flash-bang grenades and men shouting 'get down, get down', at which point a flood of people started running towards escalators at the other end of the centre whilst screaming to get out. | |
"We heard what I can only describe as gunshots, maybe warning shots and a flood of men in balaclavas and bullet-proof vests armed with guns running towards a jewellery store. | |
"We then kept running into the train station with people screaming and climbing over the gates to get on to trains." | "We then kept running into the train station with people screaming and climbing over the gates to get on to trains." |
Police later said no guns were fired. |