'I just want to leave': Residents at Elmington Estate on the 'war zone' that used to be their home
A mass fight involving almost 30 teenage boys and 'zombie' knives took place in the children's play area
Elmington Estate in Camberwell, South London, now resembles a post-apocalyptic war zone with many residents living behind security doors with iron bars and grills on their windows. This has become one of the most common sights of a community under siege.
One woman who lives in the estate said: "There is nothing to be done anymore. I just want to leave." She went on to describe the neighborhood as being a "war zone". The rise in shootings and stabbings in Britain's capital city reached its peak last week in a major incident that took place outside the woman's home in Landor House, a five-story block of apartments located in the estate.
