A woman was shot by police during the operation at a property in Harlesden Road, Willesden, shortly before 7pm on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Officers said the home had been under observation as part of a counter-terrorism operation and armed entry was required “due to the nature of the intelligence we were dealing with”.<\/p>\n
The woman, aged in her 20s, has not been arrested “at this time” due to her condition, which is said to be “serious but stable”.<\/p>\n
Officers used CS gas during the armed raid, which resulted in the arrests of two people at the home and another nearby.<\/p>\n
Later, a man and a woman, both aged 28, were arrested when they returned to the property.<\/p>\n
Another woman, aged 43, was also held in Kent.<\/p>\n
Officers continue to search the property on Harlesden Road, as well as two other London addresses.<\/p>\n
Met Police deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu said the arrests “have contained the threats that they posed”.<\/p>\n
He said: “With the attack in Westminster on 22 March so fresh in people’s minds, I would like to reassure everyone that across the country officers are working round the clock to identify those people who intend to commit acts of terror.<\/p>\n
“After that attack, we increased the number of officers on duty patrolling at key locations – and that continues as we police against the backdrop of a severe terrorist threat.”<\/p>\n
One neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said he heard three gunshots and described seeing a “squad” of armed police descend on Harlesden Road.<\/p>\n
He said: “They brought down a woman, a lady, in a black scarf, a black burka.<\/p>\n
“We saw she had been shot – the paramedics and ambulances that were there, they stripped off her clothing to get access to the wounded areas.”<\/p>\n
He said the woman was carried out of the house on a stretcher, adding the family who live there are from Somalia.<\/p>\n
A woman who lives next door to the raided property said she saw officers with “gas masks and snipers”.<\/p>\n
She said: “We heard ‘bang, bang, bang, bang’, went to the window and just saw a number of armed police just there with their guns pointing at our next-door neighbour’s window.”<\/p>\n
She said a woman was “screaming really loud” and described her neighbours as a “standard Muslim couple” of whom she “never suspected anything at all”.<\/p>\n
Another neighbour who witnessed the raid unfolding told Sky News it was “really scary”.<\/p>\n
Jeane Fillaule said: “I thought I was safe in this area but I really don’t feel safe anymore.”<\/p>\n
The shooting has been referred to Met Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission.<\/p>\n
Police said the raid was unconnected to the arrest of a man just yards from Downing Street<\/strong><\/a> on suspicion of preparing a terror attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source\u00a0 news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"