LONDON STABBING RAMPAGE: Two dead and one critical in 40 minute knife frenzy
TWO people have been stabbed to death in London within 40 minutes of one another in separate attacks.
An 18-year-old man is also in critcial condition after being stabbed just hours later on Sunday in Haringey, north London.
A 26-year-old father who has been identfied as Raul Nicolaie died in hospital after being stabbed at his flat in Colindale, northwest London and a woman in her 30s died at the scene of a stabbing in Brixton, south London.
Mr Nicolaie is beleived to have a six-month-old son and was living with his giflfriend in Zenith Close in Colindale.
His friend David Hass told the Evening Standard: "I saw the paramedics bring him out of the flats on a stretcher. I couldn’t see his face but then I recognised his arm tattoo.”
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Another friend descrbed him as a "good guy".
A woman, 34, has been arrested in connection with the Colindale attack that happened just before 6pm on Sunday.
Land and air ambulance crews treated the victim and he was taken to hospital where he later died.
Police believe the victim and suspect knew each other.
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A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody at a south London police station for the death in Brixton that happened at 6:36pm.
Police say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene and her family have been informed.
Neighbours on Sudbourne Road in Brixton were shocked as they describe the street at "quiet and neighbourly".
The third stabbing victim was taken to hospital as his attacker is beleived to be a 19-year-old man who has been arrested on suspicion of affray.
He was taken into custody at a north London police station.
More than 35 people have been stabbed to death in London so far this year.
The number of murders in London so far this years is nearing 60.
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