Four young men were stabbed to death in London over the New Year in separate incidents that reflect the capital’s growing struggle with knife crime.
London police say that four separate murder investigations are underway.
The victims were aged between 17 and 20, fitting the pattern of increasing numbers of young victims of knife crime in the capital.
These latest deaths bring the number of teenagers stabbed to death in 2017 in the capital to 20, the highest in a decade, and nearly double the 12 recorded in 2016.
According to a statement by the Metropolitan police, the stabbings all occurred between the evening of Dec. 31, 2017, and the morning of Jan. 1, 2018.
Police believe one of the stabbings, in Tulse Hill, South London, may have been sparked by an altercation on the local number 68 bus, which resulted in a 17-year-old male dying from a single stab wound.
