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A man has been stabbed to death in a street fight in Greater Manchester, police have said. | A man has been stabbed to death in a street fight in Greater Manchester, police have said. |
The 18-year-old, from Stretford, was stabbed in the chest outside the Ivory pub in Flixton Road, Urmston, at about 02:00 BST after reports of a gang of men and women fighting. | |
He was taken to Hope Hospital where he later died. | |
A 25-year-old woman from Urmston has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning. | |
Another 18-year-old man is in the Manchester Royal Infirmary in a stable condition with stab wounds to the neck and leg. | |
A murder investigation is under way and a post-mortem examination will take place to establish the cause of death. | |
Det Supt Andy Peach said it was a "shocking incident" and police believe the people involved knew each other. | |
"From early accounts we believe there was an earlier verbal altercation outside the Ivory pub which escalated into violence and this tragic death," he said. |