A seven-year-old girl and three women have been taken to hospital after a shooting outside a funeral near Euston station in central London.

The Metropolitan Police said three women – aged 48, 54, and 41 – were taken to hospital after the incident on Phoenix Road.

Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening, but the 48-year-old suffered a potentially life-changing injury.

Detectives said the incident took place in the vicinity of a church, where a funeral was taking place. Police said the shots were believed to have been fired from a moving vehicle.

A seven-year-old girl was later taken to hospital with injuries believed to have been sustained in the same incident.

The force said officers were called to reports of a shooting in Phoenix Road this afternoon at 1.29pm.

“An urgent investigation is under way and details of the incident are still emerging. At this early stage there have been
no arrests,” police added.

Police officers and medics from the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance responded to the incident.

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