17/12/2007

Two Teenagers Stabbed To Death In UK

Police are investigating two separate knife attacks in which two teenage boys were stabbed to death.

Both incidents happened on Saturday. In the first, 17-year-old Muslim Ahmed Hassan, from Batley was stabbed outside Dewsbury Railway Station around 2.10pm.

A post mortem confirmed that he died from a single stab wound to the back.

Three men, aged 17, 18 and 19, all from Dewsbury, have been arrested in connection with the enquiry remain in police custody.

A 24-year-old man who was arrested was released without charge.

Later on Saturday, 16-year-old David Nowak was stabbed to death during a mass street brawl on Farleigh Road in Stoke Newington, north London.

Another boy, a 15-year-old, was also seriously injured in the incident, which happened around 11pm. He is now in a stable condition.

Fifteen people, all aged between 13 and 19 and including one female, were arrested in connection with the murder and disturbance. Police are continuing to question 12 people, while three have been released on bail.

The Metropolitan Police have appealed for anyone who attended a birthday party in the community centre in Shacklewell Road, near where the disturbance and fatal stabbing took place, to come forward.

(KMcA)


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