Teenager stabbed to death in north London

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A teenager has died after he was stabbed on Caledonian Road in north London.

Police officers found a 16-year-old boy with stab wounds after they were called to the scene on Friday night.

A witness told the Guardian that paramedics performed CPR on the teenager while he was laid on a stretcher. However, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have not formally identified the victim, but his next of kin have been informed.

Dean, who was working in a shop yards from where the teenager died and did not want to give his surname, said that he went outside to see what was going on and, although police were moving people back, he could see a ”young white boy” on a stretcher.

According to Dean, 20, from Edgware in Middlesex, CCTV footage from the shop’s cameras showed a person on a bike riding up to the spot where the teenager was later found.

Customers who came into the shop later corroborated this, saying the teenager had been stabbed in the chest and collapsed as he tried to escape on a bike. The Guardian could not verify the customers’ claims.

Dean said the surrounding area had been cordoned off by police and that sniffer dogs were being used.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan police said that officers were first called at about 7.35pm on Friday. The teenager was found at the junction of Caledonian Road and Twyford Street, north east of Kings Cross rail station.

The death comes after a spate of stabbings in the capital in January – with three in the first nine days of 2015.