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| Teenager dies after knife attack | Teenager dies after knife attack |
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| A teenager has died after being stabbed in a street attack in south London. | A teenager has died after being stabbed in a street attack in south London. |
| The 16-year-old suffered multiple knife wounds but no weapon has been recovered from the scene, the Metropolitan Police has said. | The 16-year-old suffered multiple knife wounds but no weapon has been recovered from the scene, the Metropolitan Police has said. |
| Officers were called to Beulah Crescent, Thornton Heath, shortly before 1400 BST on Thursday. | Officers were called to Beulah Crescent, Thornton Heath, shortly before 1400 BST on Thursday. |
| The victim was taken to hospital but he died shortly after midnight. He is the 18th teenager to be murdered in London in 2008. | The victim was taken to hospital but he died shortly after midnight. He is the 18th teenager to be murdered in London in 2008. |
| Spate of stabbings | |
| An air ambulance was scrambled but the victim was eventually taken to hospital by road after being treated at the scene. | |
| The attack comes in a week which has seen a spate of stabbings in the capital. | |
| On Sunday 16-year-old Ben Kinsella was knifed to death in Islington. | |
| Later that day the bodies of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found with more than 240 stab wounds after a flat fire in New Cross, south-east London. | |
| On Monday Tunisian national Hamouda Bessaad was stabbed to death on Old Kent Road, south-east London, while Dee Willis, 28, died after a knife attack in Peckham the following day. |