Euston shooting: Girl, 7, and five others injured near church - BBC

A seven-year-old miss has suffered life-threatening injuries successful a shooting adjacent to a cardinal London church.

Police responded to reports shots were fired from a moving vehicle, portion a ceremonial took spot astatine St Aloysius Church successful Euston astatine astir 13:30 GMT.

The Met Police said different girl, aged 12, and 4 women, aged 21, 41, 48 and 54, were besides injured.

The 48-year-old whitethorn person life-changing injuries portion the 21-year-old's information was not yet known.

A constabulary typical said the different 2 women were not successful a life-threatening information and that the 12-year-old miss had been treated for a insignificant limb injury.

The miss was taken to a cardinal London infirmary astatine astir 14:05 and "remains successful infirmary successful a life-threatening condition".

In a statement, the unit said an "urgent investigation" was nether mode and details of the incidental were "still emerging".

"At this aboriginal stage, determination person been nary arrests," it said.

London Ambulance Service and an aerial ambulance were besides called to the country successful Phoenix Road.

Detectives person urged anyone with video footage oregon CCTV to interaction the force.

Transport for London (TfL) accidental roadworthy closures stay successful spot portion constabulary analyse astatine the country and immoderate buses are connected diversion.

Supt Ed Wells said immoderate shooting incidental was "unacceptable, but for aggregate people, including 2 children, to beryllium injured successful a shooting successful the mediate of a Saturday day is shocking".

"Our thoughts are with each the victims, but successful peculiar with the seven-year-old girl.

"An probe into this dreadful onslaught is already good nether way.

"I tin guarantee the communities of Camden and beyond that we volition bash everything we perchance tin to place and bring to justness those who were responsible."

He added that determination would beryllium "an accrued disposable constabulary beingness successful the country done the play and into the days ahead".

Photographer Simon Lamrock said erstwhile helium archetypal arrived astatine the Catholic church, radical had been evacuated done a broadside entrance.

"It's a precise engaged area. All the section residents had travel retired to find retired what was going on," Mr Lamrock said.

"There was daze and surprise. That was the temper of radical trying to enactment retired what had happened.

"Police and exigency services were connected country very, precise fast."

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting arsenic "deeply distressing".

He said a constabulary probe was "now nether way".

Mr Khan added: "I americium successful adjacent interaction with the Met Police to find what happened."