Violent UK: Five wounded in Tube double shooting
TwO men were last night gunned down outside a busy London station.
It was the second shooting next to an Underground stop in as many days.
Shots were fired at a group of men outside Rayners Lane station in north London just after 5pm.
The suspect then fled the scene with an accomplice on a moped. The two victims were later found with bullet wounds in a nearby garden and taken to hospital.
It comes after a similar attack on Monday night five miles away, where three people were shot outside Kingsbury station at 9.45pm. Victims of the attack were seen writhing in pain on the ground as onlookers called for help.
witnesses said the victims, two men, aged 18 and 24, and a woman, 30, were shot in the legs in what is thought to be a gang-related attack. Two of the victims ran into a nearby off-licence after the attack with bloodsoaked jeans, shouting for an ambulance.
A shop employee said: ‘They hid in the back of the shop until the ambulance came. Both had been shot in the legs and there was bleeding everywhere.’
Another witness, who works in a nearby bookmaker, said she rushed out after hearing gunshots.
‘we saw a boy lying on the floor. [He] had been shot in the upper thigh,’ she said.
‘He was in agony, he was screaming and then we saw a girl outside who had blood on her leggings. She was trying to help the boy. everyone was in a panic.’
The female victim of the Kingsbury shooting was discharged from hospital yesterday. The two men were still receiving treatment last night. Scotland Yard said that no arrests have yet been made and said that the incident was not terror-related.
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest on Monday in a separate incident.
The teenager was taken to hospital suffering ‘life-threatening’ injuries after the attack in Archway, north London, but was said to be recovering yesterday.
Last night’s shooting is the latest in a spate of violent attacks in London, where more than 90 murder investigations have been launched so far this year.