Police are continuing to question a man over the stabbing of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a lift at a block of flats in south-east London.
The girl is believed to have been returning home from school when she was attacked at Matheson Lang House, in Lambeth, at 1545 BST on Monday.
A mother and her eight-year-old daughter found the girl, who had suffered multiple stab wounds.
A man in his 30s was arrested nearby and is being questioned by detectives.
Paramedics arrived at the scene in Baylis Road within four minutes but were unable to revive the teenager, a London Ambulance Service spokesman said.
The girl, who died at the scene, is the 16th teenager to have died violently in London since January.
Police are keeping an open mind about the motive for the killing, but they do not believe it to be gang-related.
A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.
'I'm scared'
Sharon Moore, who lives in the block of flats, said residents had been given security fobs on Friday as part of measures to tighten security.
"I feel very insecure and afraid for my children and for the other children in the block," she said.
Hermance Deh, who lives opposite the block of flats, said she refused to let her children out after school because of fears over their safety.
"I'm scared for my children," she said. "I'm shocked because it's a young girl.
"My children don't go out after school, they don't hang around here."
Protesting Gujjar women have blocked the Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra rail routes, leaving almost 40,000 passengers stranded.
More than 20 trains on that route have been cancelled and this stand-off could continue for the next 24 hours.
The Rajasthan government is refraining from taking any action against the protesters, as there are signs of the stand-off with Gujjars winding down.
Railway tracks at Bandikuian near Dausa are occupied and all trains from Ahmedabad to Delhi been cancelled. This rail route via Jaipur is the main link between North India, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
''We have a huge force squatting on the tracks and they have put their women in front, nobody wants to use force against them as this may complicate and aggravate the situation. Twenty trains are not running, even major trains like Rajdhani and Shatabdi and losses of Rs 1 crore in Jaipur itself,'' said Jayant Singh, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Jaipur. more...
Six Asian construction workers are feared killed in an accident at a hotel building site in the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early Monday.It has not been officially confirmed whether any of the workers was Indian.
According to local reports, an excess amount of concrete was poured on the ground floor of the under-construction Laguna Beach Hotel around 3 a.m. Monday, resulting in the collapse of the floor on to the basement.
All six workers got trapped in the rubble.
The reports said rescue personnel from Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman Civil Defence were continuing their efforts to extricate the bodies even as the spilled concrete was rapidly hardening.
The Khaleej Times reported that all officials of Sidco Construction Company, which employed the workers, have been detained for interrogation.
Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, member of the UAE Supreme Council and ruler of Ajman, expressed his grief over the incident.
He gave instructions to officials to speed up the rescue operation, the state-run Emirates News Agency (WAM) said.
A large number of the 1.5 million Indians in the UAE work as contract labour in the booming construction industry.
A key UN-sponsored summit is set to open in Rome aimed at addressing the problem of soaring global food prices.
Food costs are the highest in 30 years, causing riots in dozens of countries.
UN officials said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would call for the immediate suspension or elimination of price controls or other trade restrictions.
But many observers have so far focused on Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, whose presence at the summit has been called "obscene" by the UK and Australia.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the Zimbabwean president was "the person who has presided over the starvation of his people". more...
No comments:
Post a Comment