After a funeral service in London, four women and two girls aged seven and 12 were shot and injured – the seven-year-old was life-threatening. Police in the British capital announced the shots were fired outside a Catholic church near Euston train station on Saturday. “Preliminary investigations indicate that the shots were fired from a moving car,” the Metropolitan Police said.
The four women injured in the incident are said to be 21, 41, 48 and 54 years old and were hospitalized. Her injuries are not life-threatening, police said. The 12-year-old has already been released from hospital after treatment for minor leg injuries.
“Any shooting is unacceptable, but the fact that several people, including two children, were injured in a shooting in the middle of Saturday afternoon is shocking,” said Police Representative Ed Wells. Local officials and specialized detectives are involved in the investigation of the incident.
Mourners just let pigeons fly
An eyewitness told news website MyLondon the shots were fired as mourners released doves after a service for a mother and her daughter. The funeral service was for 20-year-old Sara Sanchez and her mother, who both died in November — Sanchez of leukemia, her mother of a blood clot after a flight from Colombia to London, priest Jeremy Trood told the PA news agency.
Source: Krone
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