Four people stabbed to death in London New Year's eve knife violence
At least four young men were stabbed to death in unrelated incidents
in London on New Year’s Eve, while a fifth is in a critical condition in
hospital.
The unusually concentrated spate of violence adds to the growing
concerns about knife crime in London which is at its highest level for
five years. At least 80 people were killed in stabbings in London in
2017, more than half of them under the age of 25.
Detectives launched four separate murder investigations into the
overnight attacks, which took place away from the city centre, where
more than 100,000 people had gathered to watch the New Year’s Eve
fireworks and five men have been arrested, police said.
“It is heart-breaking that, at a time when so many of us are
contemplating what lies ahead in 2018, four families are dealing with
the grief of losing a loved one to senseless violence and the callous
use of knives as lethal weapons,” said police commander Neil Jerome.
Police registered almost 12,100 knife attacks in London in the year
to March 2017, which left more than 4,400 people injured the highest
figures in five years.
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