Surgeon says he is regularly treating children in school uniform for gun and knife wounds in London

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Surgeon says he is regularly treating children in school uniform for gun and knife wounds in London hospital which is 'like Afghan war zone'

    Trauma surgeon Martin Griffiths said children are increasingly being injured
    He said young teens were being admitted daily for life-threatening wounds
    Griffiths said military colleagues compared the scene to Camp Bastion

By Cheyenne Roundtree For Mailonline

Published: 07:22 EDT, 5 April 2018 | Updated: 07:25 EDT, 5 April 2018

A trauma surgeon has said he is regularly treating children in school uniforms for gun and knife wounds at a London hospital that has been compared to an 'Afghan war zone'.

As the capital's murder rate and gang violence escalates, a growing number of children are being injured and killed in the wake of the epidemic.

Martin Griffiths, a lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, said children as young as 13 years old being are being admitted for life-threatening wounds daily.

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