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Woolwich eyewitness: one of the men fired a gun, but it backfired and he lost his finger

The reporting of yesterday’s murder was driven not by journalists, but by eyewitnesses quickly able to share what they saw. Here is one extraordinary chain of tweets by a rapper, Boya Deemarko, who says that one of the murderers fired a gun but lost his finger when the weapon backfired.

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Fraser Nelson is a Times columnist and a former editor of The Spectator.

This article originally appeared in the UK edition

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