West Hampstead stabbing: Teenager injured in knife attack in northwest London
Young man taken to hospital following latest violent incident in capital
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A teenager has been stabbed several times in an attack on a street in northwest London.
Emergency services were called to the incident in Billy Fury Way, a path off Lithos Road, West Hampstead, around 8pm on Tuesday evening, the Metropolitan Police said.
A male, thought to be in his teens, was taken to hospital suffering from stab injuries. His condition is currently unknown.
A crime scene remained in place on Tuesday night as police conducted enquiries.
The attack comes in a week in which five men, including two teenagers, have been killed in stabbings, all of which took place in the south of the capital.
On Wednesday last week, Rocky Djelal, 38, was killed during a knife attack in Southwark Park in Rotherhithe.
Little more than 24 hours later, 15-year-old Jay Hughes was killed in Bellingham during a stabbing at a chicken shop.
Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, was fatally knifed on Friday outside Clapham South Tube station, close to where he studied.
On Sunday, Ayodeji Habeeb Azeez, 22, from Dagenham was fatally stabbed in Samos Road, Anerley.
The following day, a 16-year-old boy named locally as “John” was stabbed to death in Tulse Hill.
Police have launched more than 100 murder investigations across London in 2018 in what has been a year of violence in the capital.