Four people have been hospitalised following what is being described as a “drive-by” shooting in the multicultural Brixton area of south London in the early hours of Saturday morning.
According to the BBC, a 25-year-old man remains in life-threatening condition, while 21, 47, and 70-year-old men were hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries following a shooting on Coldharbour Lane at around 1 am local time.
A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: “We treated four patients at the scene. We took two of them to a major trauma centre and the other two patients to a local hospital.”
The head officer for the Metropolitan Police’s investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Allam Bhangoo, described the shooting as an “act of indiscriminate violence”.
“We understand how concerning this incident will be for the local community and want to reassure residents that officers are working at pace to identify those responsible.”
So far police have yet to
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