A GUNMAN was on the loose after three young men were shot in a street disturbance early today.
Armed police had been drafted into Burnley after the three men, all Asians, were taken to hospital with what the police described as 'serious' injuries.
Two suffered extensive chest injuries and the other was shot in the face in Holbeck Street. They were all taken to Burnley General Hospital.
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