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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Jacob Jarvis

Two men stabbed in London last night as knife crime spree continues in the capital

Two men fell victim to knife attacks in the capital last night in the latest stabbings on the streets of London.

One man was stabbed in the chest in the West End and another was knifed repeatedly upon leaving a bowling alley in east London.

Both were rushed to hospital and neither victim is in life-threatening conditition.

The first incident happened as a 24-year-old man left Hollywood Bowl in Dagenham with a family member and a group of males approached him.

As he got into a car the men began to hit out at the vehicle before repeatedly knifing the victim and running away.

Scotland Yard was called at 10.17pm after the man had taken himself to hospital. They described it as an “unprovoked attack”.

Police continue to investigate and no arrests have been made.

Later that evening, the Met was called to Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End to reports of an assault, where they found a man had been stabbed in the chest and another had been hit with a bottle to the head.

An eyewitness to the scenes, who was stood in a McDonald's by where the incident unfolded, said she saw fighting outside the store then a man smash another person "over the head with a bottle".

She told the Standard: "It was all quite dramatic and happened really quickly."

Following the incident she described how one man was bleeding and another man lifted his shirt to reveal a knife wound.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said they had both been taken to hospital.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of affray following the incident and been taken into custody.

The incidents came after a 29-year-old man was stabbed to death in Fulham in the early hours of Saturday.

It was on the same street where Jill Dando was shot dead in 1999.

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