15-year-old girl stabbed to death in south London

A young girl, 15, has died after being stabbed 'in the neck' on a school bus, the Metropolitan Police has reported. Police confirmed an arrest has been made after a teenager was tracked in connection with the stabbing.

Officers rushed to the scene after receiving reports of a girl being knifed on Wellesley Road near the Whitgift shopping centre around 8.30am.

The Metropolitan Police attended with paramedics from London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance, but she died at the scene shortly after 9.20am.

An eyewitness described how an argument between the victim and the boy, both in school uniform, led to the fatal stabbing.

They both got off the bus, she said something, then he pulled out a long knife knife with a jagged edge. It was like a machete or something. She was stabbed in the throat. I had to look away.

Another local added: “There were people with kids on the bus. Everyone was running in a panic.”

A third said: “The knife was like a sword. The boy tried to give the girl flowers, but she didn’t want to know. Then he stabbed her. A police officer tried to stem the wound but there was a lot of blood.”

Chief Superintendent Andy Brittain, in charge of local policing, said: “Our immediate thoughts are with this young girl’s family who are facing the most tragic of news. Our officers are with the girl’s family to support them."