Four police officers have been attacked by a teenage boy who was arrested following shootings in Manchester.
Officers raided nine properties on Friday after a number of incidents, including three shootings, in Harpurhey since the start of February.
During the raids, they arrested six people all males between the ages of 16 and 31.
A 17-year-old was arrested who said he was unwell, he was taken to hospital where he attacked the four officers with him biting two of them.
A 69-year-old special constable suffered an arm wound while a police constable was injured in the leg. They have since been discharged from hospital.
Greater Manchester Police said the officers “were left understandably shocked” but managed to finish their shifts later.
Supt Rebecca Boyce said the arrests meant they were “able to drive a wedge between those individuals we believe to be involved in this criminality”.
“The recklessness and the frequency of these incidents…made it of great importance that we take strong and swift action to disrupt this criminal activity and to reassure the public that we are doing all we can to tackle this issue,” she added.
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