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Man killed and two people injured in Surrey pool party shooting



Media captionDet Supt Bex Smith: "This was a shocking turn of events at what had been billed at a private pool party"
One man has been killed and two people injured in a shooting at a pool party in Surrey.
The 34-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound at an address in Headley, near Epsom, shortly after 02:30 BST, Surrey Police said.
A 36-year-old woman was shot in the leg and taken to hospital while another man was treated for minor shoulder wounds.
Surrey Police said the victims were guests at a private party. Someone has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Det Supt Bex Smith said a second person had been held on suspicion of assisting an offender - but the force would not reveal the sex of the two arrested people.
The weapon used is believed to be a handgun, she said. It has not been recovered.
Police are particularly keen to hear from anyone who saw a black and white Mini that left the scene following the shooting, she added.
'Partying hard'
Det Supt Smith said it was not believed there was any risk now to Headley residents.
Appealing for information, she said: "This was a shocking turn of events at what had been billed as a private pool party and would have been witnessed by a number of people."


Media captionThe shooting happened in what is normally a quiet, sleepy village
An advert for a "Big Mansion Pool Party" at a "Posh Location in the Hills" was posted on Instagram.
Mole Valley District Council confirmed it issued a temporary event notice for a private garden party at The Bungalow after it received no objections from Surrey Police or environmental health.
The event was licensed from 14:00 on Sunday to 04:00 on Monday and covered sale of alcohol, provision of regulated entertainment and provision of late-night refreshment.


Image copyright Instagram Image caption The advert for the party was posted on the Instagram account of reggae dancehall artist Braintear Spookie, real name Jason White
Neighbours said the house on Church Lane had been rented out for parties before.
Julie Ho-a-shoo, who runs the Headley village shop, told BBC Surrey she noticed a knife on the edge of the road and alerted police.
She said there was loud music until about 02:30.
"They were partying really hard and loud. There was complete devastation. It looks like everyone had used our front drive as a toilet."


Media captionAn advert was posted on the Instagram account of reggae dancehall artist Braintear Spookie, who was listed as an organiser of the event
Parish councillor David Preedy said the house had been rented out for a noisy party last year and alerted police when he heard a "repeat was being organised".
"I walked up at 8pm and there were people assembling. They weren't people from the community. I could hear music was being played but I couldn't see much as the place has an enclosed garden.
"I called the police and asked them to patrol and make organisers know they should be considerate neighbours.
"I am sure people will be shocked and very worried."



arvil Senin, 25 Juli 2016
Ansbach explosion: Bomber pledged allegiance to IS


The Syrian man who blew himself up in Ansbach, Germany, on Sunday made a video pledging allegiance to the leader of so-called Islamic State, Bavarian authorities say.
The man threatened a "revenge attack" on Germans in the video, they said.
Germany's federal prosecutor's office has taken on the case due to "the suspicion of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation".
IS has claimed it was behind the attack and the Syrian was an IS "soldier".
Fifteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when an explosive device in the man's rucksack, packed with shrapnel, went off close to a music festival in the small town, which is near Nuremberg.
If the attack is confirmed as IS-linked, it would be the first Islamist-inspired suicide bomb on German soil.
The bomber had been denied asylum in Germany and was due to be deported to Bulgaria, where he had previously been granted refugee status.
He had received psychiatric inpatient treatment and had tried to take his own life on two previous occasions, officials said.
Naming the man as 27-year-old Mohammad D., the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement (in German) that a video in which a masked man pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the IS leader, was found on one of the attacker's phones.
Investigators believe that the masked man is Mohammad D. himself. Authorities are investigating whether other people were involved in the crime.



State Interior Minister Joachim Hermann said two phones, multiple SIM cards and a laptop were found with the body of the asylum seeker or at his accommodation.
The attacker announced in the video "an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam," Mr Hermann said.
Germany was already reeling after five people were wounded on a train in another part of Bavaria a week ago by an axe-wielding teenager from Afghanistan who had pledged allegiance to IS.
On Friday nine people were killed by a teenage gunman in the state capital, Munich, who then shot himself dead. That incident was not believed to be jihadist-inspired.
Bavarian authorities said that the bomb which exploded in Ansbach was clearly meant to kill as many people as possible.
Further bomb-making equipment was found at the asylum seeker accommodation where the man was living, including a fuel canister, hydrogen peroxide and batteries, they added.
A detailed analysis of the content of all the videos found on the man's electronic devices was ongoing, Mr Hermann said.
"I think that after this video there's no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background," the state interior minister said.


Seven deadly days

A week of bloody attacks has frayed nerves in Germany, which led the way in accepting asylum seekers from Syria. To date, two of the attacks have been linked to a militant group:



  • 18 July: An axe-wielding teenage asylum seeker from Afghanistan is shot dead after injuring five people in an attack on a train. IS claims the attack, releasing a video recorded by the attacker before the incident
  • 24 July: A Syrian asylum seeker is arrested in the town of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly killing a Polish woman with a machete and injuring two other people. Police suggest it was probably a "crime of passion"
  • 24 July: A failed Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside a music festival in the small Bavarian town of Ansbach, injuring 15 other people.

The German interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, acknowledged possible links to international terrorism and IS but also added: "At the same time, we cannot exclude a particular psychological or mental disorder or instability - or we may be talking about a combination of both factors."
Mr de Maiziere has ordered increased police presence in public places.
A neighbour at the asylum seeker accommodation where Mohammad D. lived said he often lied, without any reason, perhaps for attention. He had always said he did not like IS, the neighbour said.



Germany has been the main destination of Syrian asylum seekers entering the EU, most of them arriving irregularly in Greece via Turkey.
Only 23 Syrians had their applications for asylum rejected by the country last year, out of a total of 105,620 decisions on Syrians' applications. A common reason for rejecting an application is when the asylum seeker submits false or incomplete information.
Just under half of asylum seekers rejected by Germany in the past two years were allowed to stay on in the country, according to a recent report in German daily Die Welt (in German).
The Ansbach bomber, who was among those rejected for asylum in 2015, appears to have been placed in a former hotel in the town, designated by the municipal authorities for asylum seekers since 2014.
Source of statistics: German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees report (in German)
 






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