Highbury and Islington stabbing: Woman arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after knifing outside busy Tube station

Stabbing: The incident came amid a spate of violent incidents in London
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing outside a busy north London Tube station, amid a surge in violent crime in the capital.

Emergency services raced to the scene of the incident outside Highbury and Islington station shortly before 10.30pm on Saturday.

Paramedics rushed a man, aged in his 30s, to an east London hospital.

Images posted on social media showed a police cordon in place around the station as a number of officers stood by.

The man's injury is not life-threatening, Scotland Yard said.

A woman, aged 48, was arrested close the scene on suspicion of attempted murder. She remains in custody at an east London police station.

Earlier on Saturday evening, an 18-year-old man was taken to hospital after being repeatedly stabbed in Barking, east London.

Police were called to Gascoigne Road at about 4.30pm. The victim suffered serious injuries.

The incidents came amid a series of shootings and stabbings in London, with six people dying on the capital's streets in the past seven days.

The Met Police has opened 55 murder investigations this year.

On Thursday, six people were stabbed in London over the space of 90 minutes.

A 15-year-old was knifed on East India Dock Road in Poplar at 5.30pm before three males – two aged 15 and another aged 16 – were attacked in Mile End about half an hour later.

Just before 7pm a 13-year-old boy was seriously injured after being stabbed in Newham, before a man in his late teens was taken to hospital following an attack in Ealing Broadway.

Earlier in the day, just before 1pm, a man in his 20s was knifed in Walthamstow.

On Friday evening, two teens were taken to hospital after a stabbing at Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon.

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