06/09/2010

Five Men Stabbed In London

Five young men are being treated for multiple stab wounds after an incident in east London.

Police were initially called to reports of a stabbing near North Greenwich Tube station, close to the O2 Arena, around 2am.

They found the victim, as well as four other men, all suffering from stab wounds.

The men, all aged in their late teens or early twenties, were taken to hospital - three to a hospital in east London and two to a hospital in south London - but none of their injuries are believed to be life-threatening.

No-one has been arrested.

(KMcA/GK)

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