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A violent London gang which terrorised businesses with a fake handgun, hammer, and samurai sword in a campaign of “frightening armed robberies” has been jailed.

A man has been arrested for dangerous driving after a Mercedes carrying a gunshot victim crashed into pedestrians and parked cars in West London.

A man was shot dead by a gunman on a pedal bike in broad daylight in Liverpool, England, on Sunday morning.

A teenager has died and two more injured after a deadly shooting in east London, sparking a murder probe and continuing London’s bloody crime wave.

Police swooped on Yaxham village in Norfolk, England after reports of “gunshots and the sound of children screaming” — to find it a party of small children playing with Nerf guns.

A young woman in East London has been gunned down in broad daylight as the capital’s violent crime epidemic rolls on.

The Metropolitan Police has launched a murder investigation after a 22-year-old man was found with fatal gunshot wounds in a North London cemetery.

Armed criminals pulled up alongside a police van on a moped and aimed a gun at the officers in an attempt to free a suspected burglar detained in the back in Croydon, South London.

Researcher Adam Lankford claims 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings occur in the U.S. but John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) says the actual U.S. percentage is “over 95 percent” lower than Lankford suggested.

At least 28 people were shot, two of whom were killed, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

Two men were arrested Tuesday night after a shooting near Rayners Lane station in London which saw two injured, with Britains’ capital city seeing a total of four shooting incidents in just two days. 

Shots were fired outside a Westminster school and three people were injured in a shooting in Brent Monday, as the violent crime wave apparently gripping London continues apace. 

More than 50 individuals were shot, six fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago. NBC 5 reports that five of the six fatalities occurred on Sunday and that four of those were teenagers. 

Ten people, including two children, have been hospitalised after gunshots were fired in Manchester on Sunday morning, as the multicultural city celebrates its ‘Caribbean Carnival’.

The number of armed police operations in England and Wales has risen by 19 percent in the past year, reaching its highest level since 2010 amidst rising violent crime and terrorism.

Three men have been arrested after a shootout between the Metropolitan Police and masked gunmen after a car chase in East London.

Police in Sadiq Khan’s London are seeking a gang of “possibly Turkish” men who broke into a family home and threatened the occupants, including children, with a machete, a rifle, and a “machine gun”.

“High-harm” violent offences involving weapons are soaring in England and Wales, as a crime wave continues, with knife and gun crime, as well as homicide, shooting up.

At least 21 individuals were shot, two fatally, during a 14-hour time period on Monday in gun-controlled Chicago. The wounded included children as young as 11 years old.

A man has been convicted of murder after repeatedly stabbing a young father to death in front of his partner for a Rolex watch in a “sustained” and “remorseless” attack in London.

London police chief Cressida Dick included victims of the 7/7 terror bombings in her figures when claiming murder rates had seen a steep decline.

Over 1,000 people have been shot in gun-controlled Chicago year-to-date and more than 200 people have been killed.

London’s deadly crime wave is continuing, with a man “shot in the face” in a double gun attack, a woman “slashed in the face”, and an attempted knife murder in a weekend of horrific violence. For the second time in

A man is in critical condition in hospital after being riddled with bullets in Sadiq Khan’s London, just 20 minutes after another man was stabbed in the chest in an unrelated attack.

Police are seeking drive-by shooters who sprayed a house in Cheetham Hill, an area of Manchester with an “entrenched criminal culture” and the site of several anti-terror raids.

A new study has claimed young men in Sweden are twice as likely as their European counterparts to be victims of a deadly shooting as gang violence across the country has continued to grow

Four people have been shot over a 48-hour period in Sadiq Khan’s London, leaving a teenager dead and a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old with head injuries.

London’s crime wave will develop into “carnage” come summer, a leading trauma surgeon has predicted, warning shocking levels of violence in the capital is “the new normal”.

Two men have been shot in Luton, a large and diverse town in Bedfordshire, north-west of London.

The son of a Nigerian politician has been shot dead outside his home in London over the weekend, becoming the tenth murdered victim of the ‘gun free’ city’s violent crime wave in just 12 days.

Paul Bauer, a 31-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department and commander of the Near North District died of multiple gunshot wounds after he was attacked outside Chicago’s iconic downtown Thompson Center Tuesday.

The Swedish city of Helsingborg has seen a four-fold increase in shootings, with fatalities in three of the 20 cases recorded in 2017.

A 20-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old seriously wounded after being shot in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö on Thursday evening. Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Friday in connection with the shooting, believed to be linked to

Seizures of ammunition and weapons at Britain’s borders almost trebled last year.

At least three gunmen, wearing clown and ghost masks opened fire on revellers at the illegal Money Move rave in Leyton, London, on Saturday injuring a man and a woman.

A major London hospital has seen the number of gunshot injuries rise faster than knife wounds, and the average age of victims get younger as the city battles a surge in violent crime, a consultant trauma surgeon has revealed.