Double murder probe after men stabbed at Dudley cannabis farm

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A double murder investigation has been launched after two men were fatally stabbed during a robbery at a "cannabis factory", police have said.

Officers were alerted to reports of men trying to force their way into a house on Pensnett Road in Brierley Hill, Dudley, at 03:30 GMT.

West Midlands Police said a fight spilled out on the street during which the men were stabbed.

One man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other died in hospital.

Cannabis was later found being grown in a property on the road, officers said.

The men who died have not been named.

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