Dalston stabbing: Teenage boy knifed in front of shocked bystanders outside theatre

Crime scene: the aftermath of the stabbing in Dalston
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A teenage boy was seriously injured after being attacked and stabbed outside a theatre in east London.

Witnesses told how the 17-year-old victim was set upon in front of the Arcola Theatre in Dalston at 9.15pm last night.

He staggered across the road and collapsed in a pool of blood on the pavement by the Shiloh Pentecostal Church in Ashwin Street.

Paramedics gave the victim emergency treatment in the street before rushing him to an east London hospital in a critical condition.

A Met Police said the boy's injuries are now no longer believed to be life-threatening.

A shopkeeper who works in nearby Dalston Lane told the Standard: “About 10 of them ran up the street. I heard a glass bottle smashing and then there was shouting, screaming.

“They were just kids, it’s madness.”

Michael Oakes saw the wounded teenager being treated by paramedics from the balcony of his flat.

He said: “The whole of Ashwin Street had been cordoned off and there were at least six police cars and a van.

“I saw what looked like a young man being treated by paramedics. It didn’t look good and there was blood everywhere.

“There was also a group of young girls stood near to him who looked distraught so they must have known him.”

Police cordoned off three roads and nearby Dalston Square as forensic detectives combed the area for evidence.

Met gang crime detectives are investigating but no arrests have been made.

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