Police have launched a murder investigation after a teenage boy died following a stabbing in Luton.<\/p>\n
Bedfordshire Police said officers responded to reports of violent disorder in Kingsway Recreation Ground at about 18:30 on Friday, where a number of teenagers were seen carrying large knives.<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old, who has not been identified, was taken to hospital with multiple stab wounds but was pronounced dead shortly after, the force said.<\/p>\n
One teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and is in police custody for questioning. A second was arrested but remains in hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Police are appealing to the public for information.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Det Ch Insp Nick Gardener condemned the “horrific violence” that has “sadly cost a teenage boy his life today”.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are first and foremost with the loved ones of the boy who lost his life in such tragic circumstances,” he said.<\/p>\n
Such incidents have “a significant impact on our communities”, he said.<\/p>\n
He also urged the public to contact police with any information they have and not to share any images and videos circulating on social media.<\/p>\n
An increased police presence and patrols will remain in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched a murder investigation after a teenage boy died following a stabbing in Luton. Bedfordshire Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}