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‘Child and man caught in crossfire’ after ‘shooting’ on London estate


Forensics teams at the scene in west London last night (Picture: UKNIP)

A child was ‘caught in the crossfire’ after a ‘shooting’ in west London last night, witnesses have said.

Police and emergency serviceswere called to an area between Ladbroke Grove and Maida Vale yesterday evening.

The Brent & Kilburn Times was told that a police helicopter was flying over a residential road near Maida Vale for ‘what felt like an hour’ and lots of police cars with their sirens on have passed the area for the ‘last couple of hours’.

One picture, taken near to West Row in Ladbroke Grove, shows a road cordoned off with at least six emergency vehicles in the area.

Other pictures show forensics teams carrying out searched along the road.

One witness told Metro: ‘A man and a child were in a car and and it looks like it was a targeted attack.

‘I think they were trying to get the man and the boy was caught up in it all.

‘Neighbours came out to try and help them both.’

The Met Police and London Ambulance Service have been contacted forcomment.

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