Today, a man was fatally stabbed at a renowned Korean restaurant off Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End, to the shock of passing shoppers.
Shortly before noon, police and emergency medical services responded to the Ariang Restaurant on Poland Street in Soho and discovered a guy with several stab wounds.
Both London Ambulance Service and the air ambulance responded, but forty minutes later the man was declared dead at the spot.
A man in his fifties was detained on suspicion of murder outside the eatery.
The incident allegedly involved employees of the restaurant, which serves traditional Korean cuisine.
In a new outbreak of violence, four people have been killed in London in only three days.
The Met said: ‘At 11:40am on Monday, August 15, police were called to reports of a stabbing in Poland Street, W1.
‘Officers attended with the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance. A man was found with stab wounds.
‘Despite the best efforts of the emergency services he was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:20hrs.His identity has yet to be confirmed.
‘A man has been arrested in connection with the incident.’
A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘We were called at 11.36am today to reports of a stabbing in Poland Street, central London.
‘We sent an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer to the scene.
‘We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance. Our first paramedic arrived in less than seven minutes.
‘Despite the best efforts of our teams, the patient sadly died at the scene.’
This is the fourth murder in London in the last three days.
A 25-year-old man was shot and killed on Saturday in Walthamstow, east London, when ‘all hell broke loose’ outside of a baby’s first birthday celebration.
Terry, a neighbour who only provided their first name, saw an altercation in the street before to the shooting.
‘I was in my flat and I saw someone with a hoodie run through the gate outside between the tree and the fence – I get anxious when people do that, running up past the window of my flat,’ he said.
Anyway, the next thing I know, I hear crack crack crack, and I assume someone is playing a practical joke by setting off firecrackers. In the preceding twenty minutes, there had been a dispute on the street.
‘I heard shouting and language being used but I don’t know what was going on with that. Then the shooting noises, that to me hadn’t sounded like a gunshot and all hell broke loose.’
A man in his 30s was discovered dead at his house in Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday morning.
A 53-year-old man afterwards surrendered to a police station and was detained for murder.
And yesterday, a 60-year-old man was murdered in Dagenham during an early-morning altercation.
Detective Chief Inspector Kate Blackburn said: ‘At this stage we believe an altercation happened between a group of men and the victim, who was with a friend. This then became physical, leading to the victim sadly suffering fatal injuries.’
Three men were detained.