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John Dunne and Martin Bentham

Bow stabbing: ‘It was like a running battle’ - witnesses tell of horror as teenager stabbed to death

Forensic officers in Lichfield Road, east London, following a teenager being stabbed to death and another fighting for his life

(Picture: PA)

Detectives are hunting the killers of a London teenager stabbed to death during a “running battle” involving scores of young people near a party.

The victim, 17, was stabbed on Lichfield Road in Bow, east London, after partying teenagers clashed and staggered around 100 yards before collapsing outside a shop in Morgan Street. He was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.

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