A MAN has been airlifted to hospital after being smashed in the head with a hammer on a busy high street tonight.
Police were called to Leyton, East London, just before 6pm following reports of men fighting and one being armed with a hammer.
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Police outside Leyton underground station not far from where the hammer attack took place Credit: ？2019 Gustavo Valiente / i-Images 2
The man was airlifted to hospital after being smashed around his head with a hammer
In a tweet, the Met said: "One man found with head injury - he has been taken to hospital. We await an assessment of his condition.
"No arrests at this stage - crime scene & road closures in place & enquiries ongoing."
Footage shows an air ambulance landing in a busy park as members of the public look on in shock and a key road was closed off near Leyton High Road.
The London Ambulance Service spokesperson confirmed the victim was a teen.
They said: "We were called at 5.50pm today (31 August) to reports of an assault on Leyton High Road.
"We sent an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, and a clinical team leader. We also dispatched London's Air Ambulance.
"A teenager was treated at the scene and taken to a hospital as a priority."
There are reports the A112 High Road Leyton is blocked near Leyton park Rd and Coronation Gardens, according to The Express.
One onlooker shared images of an air ambulance at the scene saying that "some bad has happened in Leyton".
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She said she had "never seen anything like it" and that everyone was "stunned".
One witness, who had to get off the bus he was on, reported seeing the victim "bleeding on the ground", according to MyLondon.
Police are appealing for witnesses to call 101 referencing "CAD 5515/31 Aug".
It comes as a woman and four men were stabbed in a mass knife fight in North London on Monday morning.
Paramedics were scrambled to the Civic Centre in Harrow around 4am as all five stab victims were rushed to hospital.
Two of the men are in a "serious but stable condition", according to cops, who says no arrests have been made.
Harrow Police wrote on Twitter: "We were called at 4am to a large fight in Railway Approach, Harrow.
"Five people (age late teens or 20s) taken to hospital with stab injuries.
"Conditions of two men and one woman are not life-changing or life-threatening. Two other men are in a serious but stable condition."
London Ambulance Service said they took the men and woman to hospital "as a priority" after sending "a number of resources to the scene".
A spokesman said five ambulance crews, a medic in a car, two advanced paramedics, two incident response officers and London’s Air Ambulance were dispatched.
Meanwhile, a suspect has just been charged for the murder of a woman and a man who died after having their throats slit and an 18-year-old teen arrested on suspicion of stabbing a 22-year-old to death.
Lee Peacock, 49, has been charged with the murders of Sharon Pickles and Clinton Ashmore, according to the Met police.
Sharon was found dead at a home in Westminster shortly before 9.35pm on Thursday.
Hours later, at 2.15am on Friday, paramedics called police to report a stabbing in North West London.
Officers rushed to the scene - but despite the efforts of blue light workers, Clinton died at the scene.
On August 21, cops arrested an 18-year-old in connection to the death of a young man who bled to death following a stab wound to his chest in Kingston, South West London.
The victim was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn't be saved and was declared dead.
Police confirmed an 18-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.