A teenage boy and a man are seriously ill in hospital after becoming the latest victims of separate knife attacks in London.
Police were called just after midday on Wednesday to reports of a stabbing in White City, west London. The victim, a boy believed to be in his teens, was found at the scene with life-threatening stab wounds and taken to hospital by ambulance.
Within two hours, at 1.53pm, police were called to a separate incident in Hackney, east London. A man, who was found at the scene with stab wounds, was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the Metropolitan police said.
No arrests have yet been made over either incident as inquiries continue.
Air ambulances were sent to both scenes but the victims were taken to trauma centres by road, a spokeswoman for London Ambulance said.
On the White City incident she said: “We treated a teenage boy at the scene and took him by road as a priority to a major trauma centre.”
The boy’s family was being informed the Met police confirmed.
The incidents come amid growing alarm about a spate of fatal stabbings in London.
On Monday night, a 16-year-old boy, named locally as John, died in front of his parents in Tulse Hill in the fifth fatal stabbing in London in six days. It was the 119th violent death in London so far this year.
The other stabbing victims in the past week were Rocky Djelal, 38, Jay Hughes, 15, Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, and an unnamed 22-year-old man.
