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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 29,193
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 29,193
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Westfield Stratford Stabbing(1 Dead,2 Injured)
A stabbing at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London has left one person dead and two with minor injuries, police say.
A police statement said officers arrived just before 4.30pm after reports of a fight involving a large group of males in "The Street" on the ground floor of the mall.
It said that a man suffering stab wounds, believed to be in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene
He has not yet been formally identified.
The statement added that two other men suffered minor injuries.
One man has been arrested and is helping police with their inquiries.
A statement from the London Ambulance Service said: "We were called just before 4.25pm to reports of a stabbing at Westfield in Stratford and sent two ambulance crews, a responder in a car, an officer and London's Air Ambulance to the scene.
"Sadly, despite extensive efforts to resuscitate him, the patient was pronounced dead at the scene.
"We were also called to Stratford underground station and sent two further ambulance crews and another responder in a car.
"Two male patients were treated at the scene, one of them for stab wounds and a second for minor injuries, and both have been taken to hospital."
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Wow.
Sad news.
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