Police arrest a man after reports of two gunmen in Fulham street
Police have sealed off a residential street in Fulham after two men were seen entering a house armed with guns.
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Armed police stormed a Fulham home and arrested an alleged gunman on Wednesday afternoon.
Quick-response officers sealed off Atalanta Street, off Fulham Palace Road, after a tip-off through Crimestoppers that two black men armed with a shotgun and a pistol were reported arriving at the terraced home at around 1.15pm.
Firearms units and police officers with dogs ordered neighbours to stay inside as they carried out the operation, which ended with one man being arrested at about 3pm. He was taken to a west London police station for questioning.
Neighbours, who said a woman and her teenage son live at the house, were left frightened by the incident.
One resident said: "All the police were lined up with riot shields and guns and then they just piled in.
"The woman who lives there is lovely and to say she is going to be disturbed by this is the understatement of the year."
A nanny babysitting a few doors down said: "I was just coming back from swimming and wasn't let in the road.
"There were a load of police with guns and it was really concerning. We weren't told what was going on."
Atalanta Street is round the corner from Henry Compton School, where 15-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden was a pupil when he was stabbed to death at Victoria station in March. A trial of 20 youths charged with his killing is currently under way at the Old Bailey.
The school remained open while the operation was carried out, while the road re-opened at around 3pm.
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