Teen fighting for life after two youths stabbed in Bow street brawl

Published: 12:00 AM January 14, 2010

Updated: 8:16 AM October 14, 2020

A TEENAGER is fighting for his life and another is badly injured in hospital after they were stabbed during a mass brawl last night. Police were called to Parnell Road in Bow near the A12 Blackwall Tunnel Approach around 9.20pm last night (Wednesday) to r

A TEENAGER is fighting for his life and another is badly injured in hospital after they were stabbed during a mass brawl last night.

Police were called to Parnell Road in Bow near the A12 Blackwall Tunnel Approach around 9.20pm last night (Wednesday) to reports of a fight involving around 15 people.

When they arrived, officers found the two boys suffering stab wounds nearby.

Both were taken to an east London hospital where one victim, aged 18, remains in a critical condition. The other, aged 17, is stable.

Detectives from Tower Hamlets CID investigate and officers from Homicide and Serious Crime Command have been informed.

A police spokesman said two males of unknown ages have been arrested and taken to an east London police station where they remain in custody.