Police investigating firearms incident in Burnage, Manchester

    Police are appealing for information after a man received gunshot injuries to his leg in Burnage, Manchester.

    Just before 8:20pm on Thursday the 2nd of February 2017, police were called to Kingsway after a 25-year-old man walked in to a takeaway with a gunshot wound to his leg and told witnesses that he had been shot.

    The man was taken to hospital where he remains for treatment.

    A potential scene has been located on Rosevale Avenue and that scene will now be subject to forensic examination.

    Anybody with any information should contact police on 101.

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