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Teenager dies after street stabbing in Homerton | Teenager dies after street stabbing in Homerton |
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A teenager has died after he was stabbed in east London. | A teenager has died after he was stabbed in east London. |
Officers were called to Homerton High Street shortly before midnight but the boy, who is believed to have been in his mid-teens, was pronounced dead at the scene. | Officers were called to Homerton High Street shortly before midnight but the boy, who is believed to have been in his mid-teens, was pronounced dead at the scene. |
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said no-one had been arrested so far. | A Metropolitan Police spokesman said no-one had been arrested so far. |
Ponsford Street has since reopened after it was closed at the junction with the high street so officers could carry out investigations. | |
BBC London 94.9 reporter Colleen Harris said: "People on their way to work and to school were being diverted away while forensic experts gathered evidence from the scene of last night's killing. | |
"This is a really busy junction and police will be wanting to speak to anyone who has seen or heard anything." | |
Scotland Yard said the teenager had become the seventh person to be killed in London in the first week of 2015. |