A 16-year-old boy has died in the street yards from his school after being ambushed in a "senseless knife attack".
The teenager was stabbed by three "older kids" who chased him into a bike shop in Markhouse Road, close to Kelmscott School, in Walthamstow, east London where he was a pupil.
The attackers were said to be "waiting for him" as he left school yesterday afternoon, and knifed him three times in front of other students.
Emergency workers were unable to save the Year 11 pupil and he died at the scene at 4.39pm.
No arrests have been made.
One shocked witness said they saw one of the assailants get out of a white Hyundai shortly before the attack, the Daily Mail reports.
Another local business owner said: "He was a Year 11 kid. There were three other kids older than him. They were waiting for him.
"They chased him. He ran and when he got to the tyre shop they stabbed him three times in the stomach and he bled to death."
In a statement head teacher Sam Jones that the attack marked the "darkest of days" for Kelmscott School community.
"A Kelmscott student was tragically killed in a senseless knife attack," the head teacher said.
"Kelmscott is a large and tight-knit family and this loss will be felt for a long time to come.
"Hold those that you love close this evening. I know we will come together as a community and support one another through this."
Chief Superintendent Simon Crick, who leads North East Command at the Metropolitan Police, said he was "totally devastated by the loss of a young man's life".
Local Labour MP Stella Creasy said the attack was "shocking and devastating news" in a Facebook post.
The local business owner said that gang-related violence had become a common occurrence in Walthamstow, saying it had gone from "bad to worse".
The victim is the second 16-year-old killed in the area in recent years - Amaan Shakoor was shot in a car park next Kelmscott School in April 2018.
Road closures and cordons remain in place around the scene.
