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The victim died outside the Foot Locker sports shop on Oxford Street, near the junction with Stratford Place. Police said they were called to the scene at about 13:45 GMT. Ten people were arrested and part of the street, near ...
Police said the area around the sports shop where the death happened remained sealed offAn 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in London, on one of the UK?s busiest shopping streets.
Police said they were called to the scene at about 13:45 GMT. Ten people were arrested and part of the street, near Bond Street Tube, was closed.
The incident happened as tens of thousands of people hunted for bargains in the area?s shops, during what was a busy day for Boxing Day sales across the UK.
Police said there had been a second stabbing on Oxford Street in the evening, in which a 21-year-old man was injured in the thigh, but they said it was too early to confirm whether or not the two incidents were connected.
However, Insp Bruce Middlemiss, the duty officer for police in Westminster, said: ?They are a similar sort of circumstances, youths, possibly from the same south London area.?
Det Ch Insp Dunne, of the Metropolitan Police?s homicide command, said there was no suggestion the earlier, fatal incident was gang related, but he was ?not going to discount it?.
Det Ch Insp Mark Dunne has urged witnesses to come forward?A number of weapons have been recovered from that scene, whether I have got the murder weapon I don?t know.
He added: ?This is probably the busiest place in the UK right now, on the busiest shopping day, so it?s been difficult for us to piece together what has happened.?
An employee at the nearby Disney Store said the company?s outlet had been ?quite badly affected? and was ?unlikely to open again today?.
?There is a high police presence here, we have a number of operations in place already for the shopping times because we were aware of the amount of people who would be here.
?We are going to go back and review the intelligence for both incidents and see if we need to increase the police presence here, but at the moment we are not concerned for ordinary members of the public who are shopping.?
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