Metropolitan police are investigating the death of a man found stabbed on a bus in central London – the fifth fatal stabbing in the capital in a week.
The man, in his 40s, was found on the 189 bus in Gloucester Place, near Dorset Square, Marylebone, just after midnight on Friday.
Paramedics tended to the man but he was declared dead at the scene.
A Met police spokesperson said no arrests had been made and next of kin had yet to be informed.
“Detectives are still at the location and enquiries are under way into the circumstances of when and where the stabbing took place,” the force said.
Last weekend three people including a 17-year-old boy were stabbed to death in London. On Tuesday a 24-year old man was fatally stabbed.
“Forces will continue to target habitual offenders and conduct wide-ranging proactive operations to seize thousands of illegal weapons before they can be used to cause harm.”
In a briefing last week, Martin Hewitt, the Met’s assistant commissioner, sought to pin some of the blame for increases in gun and knife crime in London on cuts to funding. “It would be a naive answer to say that if you cut a significant amount out of an organisation, you don’t have any consequences,” Hewitt said.
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