Police cordoned off an alleway in Weaste, Salford, after discovering a motorbike ablaze.
Officers taped off the ginnel, which runs between Barff Road and Kennedy Road, at around 11.45pm last night, Monday 5 October.
Greater Manchester Police said the bike was too hot to put out and for fear it might explode, put up the cordon for the safety of local residents.
A police car was still stationed outside the alleyway this morning, Tuesday 6 October.
At around 11.20pm last night a 34-year-old man was shot three times in the chest and torso on Coniston Avenue in Little Hulton.
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Two suspected were seen leaving the scene on a motorbike.
Greater Manchester Police said it was too early to say whether the two incidents were linked.
Main image by Dawne Sheldrick-Keating
