Four shootings in less than a week in Greater Manchester - everything we know as one gunman still on the loose

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The spectre of gun crime has risen again in Greater Manchester, with four shootings in less than a week. The region has thankfully shed its unwanted reputation distilled by deadly inner-city gang warfare in the early 1990s.

But events in the last week are a major cause for concern. Between Tuesday (September 16) and Saturday (September 20), Manchester has seen three shootings and Wigan one.

One man was shot in the foot in Gorton on Saturday. The gunman remains at large. In another incident on Saturday, a man was arrested in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan , after blank rounds were fired on a residential street.

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It came after a man was detained on suspicion of attempted