London stabbing: Police restrain man and rush him to hospital after knife attack in Brent
A MAN was rushed to hospital after being found with stab wounds in north west London on Monday afternoon.
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Police cordoned off part of St Mary's Road in Harlesden, in the borough of Brent, where the man was found. Officers were called to the scene by paramedics after the man refused to be treated for his injuries.
The statement read: "Police were called by London Ambulance Service (LAS) to St Marys Road, NW10, at 1.35pm on Monday August 17 to a report of a man with stab injuries.
"Officers attended. A man in his 20s was found injured.
"Due to the fact officers believed he had a serious injury and he was trying to get away from emergency services, the man was restrained and then put in an ambulance and taken to hospital.
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"His injuries have been assessed as non life-threatening.
"Enquiries into the circumstances continue."
A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 1:30pm this afternoon (August 17) to St Mary's Road, NW10, to reports of a stabbing.
"We dispatched an ambulance crew and a medic in a response car to the scene.
"We treated a man and took him to a major trauma centre."
The knife attack comes just over a week after a teenager was knifed to death in front of shocked shoppers off Oxford Street.
Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Menesses was knifed on Market Place on August 8.
The Met said the attack happened "following a fight between a number of males" which had been "witnessed by a large number of horrified onlookers".