Hackney taking pictures: Girl, 9, combating for her life after ‘indiscriminate’ motorcycle drive-by taking pictures in Dalston | EUROtoday

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A nine-year-old woman has been left combating for her life after she was shot in a drive-by taking pictures whereas consuming together with her household at a restaurant in east London.

Three males aged 36, 27 and 42 had been additionally rushed to hospital and handled for gunshot wounds after the assault exterior the Turkish Evin restaurant in Dalston, within the borough of Hackney.

All of the boys are in a secure situation however considered one of them faces doubtlessly life-changing accidents, in keeping with the Metropolitan Police.

A shopworker stated a waitress on the Turkish restaurant informed her the household had been eating alfresco when a bike let off 5 photographs.

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She informed The Independent: “I heard gunshots – like five. It sounded like pow, pow, pow. I hit the panic button and the shutters came down and I locked everyone inside.

“The waitress told me the family were sitting down and eating when they were shot. There is an outside area. It could’ve been anyone hit.

“I walked past a bullet on the floor and the police told me not to step on it. I was very close. Someone came in said it was a child was shot as well. I was on the phone to security and was just crying at the same time.

“It was so scary you have to be worried when passers-by are hit. It could’ve been anyone. This area is always packed with families, especially in half-term.”

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson stated: “An urgent investigation has been launched to identify and apprehend those responsible.

“Three men aged 36, 27, 42 were taken to hospital for treatment for gunshot wounds, they are stable but one faces potentially life-changing injuries.

“A nine-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound and remains in hospital in a critical condition. She was an innocent victim of the indiscriminate nature of gun crime.

“We do not believe that the girl and the men injured were known to each other. As with any child, she was an innocent victim of the indiscriminate nature of gun crime.

“Police arrived at the scene within minutes of the crime being reported. Two crime scenes remain in place – at Kingsland High Street and at Colverstone Crescent, where we recovered a motorbike that we believe was used in the shooting and which we now know to have been stolen.”

Anyone with info that may assist police ought to name 101 or put up @MetCC reference CAD 8082/29May. To stay nameless name Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.