Police are investigating after a gun was fired from a car in Blackpool.

Officers were called at 9.46pm on Friday to Shaw Road, to a report of a firearms incident.

They found that a firearm, believed to be a BB gun, had been discharged from inside an Audi A3 car in the direction of a Mercedes on the promenade, causing damage to the Mercedes.

A short time later there was a second incident from inside the Audi which again caused damage to the Mercedes.

No one was injured and police do not believe there in any wider threat to the public.

Officers investigating want to speak to anyone who witnessed the firearm being discharged, and anyone who has dashcam or CCTV footage from the area around the time it happened.

Any witnesses or anyone with footage, please contact 101 – quoting log 1,530 of September 20 or email 8012@lancashire.police.uk

Three men – two aged 22 and one aged 21 – have been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent, and are currently in custody.