17-year-old “hacked to death by masked gang armed with machetes” in London . The fourth case in one month
A 17-year-old was hacked to death by masked gang member in a terrifying attack in London. The youngster was chased by a gang with carrying machetes, who stabbed the victim multiple times and then left him in Battersea, reports Evening Standard.
People living in the area herd the boy’s pleas of help and raised the alarm. He was rushed to a hospital in south London but was pronounced death 90 minutes later.
A 45-year-old neighbour said: “There were about six of them, they jumped out of the car and started chasing him immediately. He was on his bike but they caught up with him and stabbed him.
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“Someone shouted ‘police are coming’ which stopped the others from finishing him off and they got in the car and sped off.”
The families living in the area are terrified given the fact there have been so many murders recently. The 17-year-old is the fourth teenager to be murdered in London in April and the eight in 2016.
Residents in Ingrave Street said the gang arrived on the estate in a car and had been “hassling” passers-by earlier in the evening.
In April . Scotland Yard revealed knife crime was up 24 per cent and gun crime up 42 per cent over the past 12 months.
Jordan Wright from Catford and Abdullahi Tarabi, from Northolt, both 19, were both chased and fatally stabbed close to their homes earlier this month.
Boxer Karim Samms, 16, was shot dead in a drive-by attack in North Greenwich on April 7.
A Met spokesman said the victim’s family had been informed of his death. He said: “There has been no arrest at this early stage and enquiries continue.”
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