Eight people were stabbed during the Notting Hill Carnival with a total of 334 people being arrested during the event, the Metropolitan Police has said. There were three stabbings on Sunday, with one of the victims being a young mother who was with a child. She remains in a critical condition.
On Monday, five people were stabbed, with two of those attacked being critically injured. The Met said a total of 50 officers had been injured during the event, while most of the arrests were for possessing an offensive weapon or drug offences.
More than one million people were expected at the carnival on Monday, a majority of whom police said had come “to celebrate” with a “minority of people using it as an opportunity to commit crime, including violence”.
Thousands of officers were deployed to the annual street party, which the force said was a “challenging event to police with very dense crowds”.
A total of 104 people were arrested on Sunday, with 230 arrests being made on Monday. In two attacks the victims sustained slash wounds and one incident involved a corrosive substance. Three firearms were recovered and there were 49 arrests for other weapons.
Source: BBC
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