Kesgrave student injured in shooting on walk to school

Media captionAn air ambulance was called to the scene

A teenager has been injured in a reported shooting on the way to school.

Officers were called just after 08:40 BST to the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, where a person was later seen receiving medical treatment.

Kesgrave High School said in a tweet it had been told the incident involved one of its Year 11 students.

One woman said her daughter and her friends were walking to school when they "heard what sounded exactly like a gunshot".

She said the children were "terrified".

An Essex and Herts Air Ambulance landed on a grass area and took off just before 10:00.

Image caption Police were called to the Through Jollys and Friends Walk areas of Kesgrave

Keswick High, which said the pupil was on the way to school at the time of the incident, said in a statement: "Students in school are safe and we are managing the situation in constant, close communication with the police."

It said it expected students to be dismissed at the end of the school day at 15:20 as normal.

On social media, people who live in the area have spoken of their shock, with one person describing it as "unfathomable".

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