A MAN is fighting for life after being blasted in the face with a SHOTGUN in an East London gun battle.
Another victim is believed to have sustained “life-threatening” gunshot wounds after the shooting in Ilford this morning.
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Shocking footage from the scene shows a paramedic observing: “looks like a shotgun to the face and a shotgun to the side.”
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “Police were called to Courtland Avenue, Ilford at 00: 06 hrs on Saturday, 28 September following reports of a shooting.
“Armed police, local officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found two men suffering from gunshot injuries.
“Both men, believed to be aged in their twenties, were taken to a central London hospital where they remain in a critical condition.
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“No arrests have been made. A crime scene remains in place.”
It comes as Londonbattles a knife crime epidemic as the capital’s murder rate this year reached more than 100.
Last year was London’s bloodiest in a decade – when the number of homicides reached 132 – and the violence continues to plague the capital.
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