London, United Kingdom:
A 14-year-old boy was stabbed to loss of life in broad daylight on a London bus on Tuesday within the newest knife-crime incident within the British capital, police stated.
The sufferer was killed on one of many metropolis’s acquainted double-decker purple buses in Woolwich, southeast London, police stated in an announcement.
Paramedics handled the boy for stab wound accidents on the scene, “however he very sadly died shortly after medics arrived,” the assertion added. No arrest was instantly reported.
The incident comes after an 11-year-old woman was critically injured in a stabbing within the busy Leicester Sq. space of London final August.
A 32-year-old man was later arrested.
In September, a young person was stabbed to loss of life in the identical space of Woolwich. Three younger males have been charged and can face trial over the killing that the prosecutor described as “tit-for-tat violence with all of the hallmarks of a turf struggle”.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has known as knife crime a “nationwide disaster”.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan wrote on X on Tuesday that his “ideas are with the household, associates and wider group in Greenwich following the appalling deadly stabbing of a 14-year-old boy.”
Matthew Pennycook, the Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, stated he was “deeply saddened that one more younger life has been misplaced in our group”.
Workplace for Nationwide Statistics information launched in October stated that knife crime in England and Wales was up 4 p.c within the 12 months to June in comparison with the earlier yr.
It was nonetheless decrease than pre-pandemic ranges, nevertheless.
The Labour authorities, in energy since July, has pledged to halve knife crime within the subsequent decade.
A ban on some knives and machetes got here into power in September and the federal government hopes to ban ninja swords.
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