Sonja Jessup
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News
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The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene
A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a double-decker bus in what police have described as “a horrendous crime”.
The victim was killed on the 472 bus on Woolwich Church Street near the junction with the A205 South Circular Road in Woolwich, south-east London, at about 14: 30 GMT.
The teenager died at the scene shortly after paramedics from London Ambulance Service and the air ambulance arrived, the Metropolitan Police added.
Ch Supt Louise Sargent said: “Our thoughts at the time are with the victim’s family and friends… I can’t imagine what they must be going through right now.”
Footage from local residents shows the aftermath of the stabbing
No arrests have been made but a police cordon and road closures remain in place.
The latest stabbing comes just three months after another teenage boy lost his life to knife crime in Woolwich.
Daèjaun Campbell, 15, was fatally stabbed in Septe
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