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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Patrick Grafton-Green

Turnpike Lane shooting: Bus driver injured after gunshots fired outside north London Tube station

A woman was chased into a lift and stabbed in Hoxton on Thursday afternoon (file photo) (Picture: Nigel Howard)

A bus driver was injured after gunshots were fired outside a Tube station in north London.

Police including armed officers were called to Turnpike Lane station in Wood Green shortly before 12.30am on Friday.

The bus driver, aged in his 50s, was found with minor injuries to his forehead caused by shattered glass.

Video footage posted on social media shows damage to the front window of a double-decker bus, while police tape and a number of police cars can also be seen.

A Met Police spokesman said: "The London Ambulance Service attended and the bus driver was taken to a north London hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

"Evidence of a firearms discharge was found at the scene. There are no reports of any other persons injured.”

No one has been arrested and officers remain at the scene.

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