A man has been arrested after a schoolboy was stabbed to death.
Emergency services were called to reports that a teenage boy had been stabbed on Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale, at around 9pm on Thursday, June 29. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene near to a busy dual carriageway.
Lancashire police have arrested a 28-year-old man and have launched a murder investigation. Inspector Simon Pritchard, of Lancashire Police said: "A murder investigation is underway following the death of a boy in Skelmersdale.