American visiting friends was accidentally hit in head by police bullet outside pub

A MAN injured when he was hit by a stray police bullet during Saturday night’s terror attack was an American who had met friends for drinks at Borough Market, according to a witness.

Police fired 50 bullets towards the pub in their desperate attempt to end the attackers’ knife rampage through the pubs and restaurants.

The man was standing near a window of The Wheatsheaf pub when a bullet hit him in the head, and was left bleeding from his eye.

Fabio Lamas, 20, a staff member at the pub, told NBC news: “I got people to start evacuating inside from our little garden that we have ... and got people to come into the bar and to go into lavatories, hide under tables and hide in our cellar where we keep all our stock.

“Then I heard shooting and I saw an American guy get shot in the head.

He was bleeding through his eye.” At least one of the attackers had been fatally shot directly outside The Wheatsheaf.

Mr Lamas attempted to calm down the man’s friends, who he said were American doctors living in London. The victim was conscious but his friends were in shock, the bar worker said.

He said he had grabbed a first aid kit while those around him attempted to treat the man’s eye injuries.

He said they told him they were from either New Jersey or New York. The US embassy would not comment on whether an American had been shot.

Before the attack, Mr Lamas heard customers shouting “knives, knives, knives” before staff used a beer barrel to barricade the doors.

It is understood that the American man was taken to hospital and treated for his wound.

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley confirmed that “as the officers confronted the terrorists... a member of the public also suffered gunshot wounds”.

The police said the man’s injury was not life threatening.

‘Then I heard shooting and I saw an American guy get shot in the head. He was bleeding through his eye’