A teenager has been stabbed to death in broad daylight in a shop as thousands of bargain hunters thronged one of Britain's busiest shopping streets.
The 18-year-old from south London was killed in the Foot Locker store on Oxford Street, London, as "hundreds of thousands" of people shopped nearby on the opening day of the post-Christmas sales, the Metropolitan Police said.
Police said it was too early to establish what the motive for the stabbing was.
A total of 10 people have been arrested and a crime scene has been set up which runs from Duke Street to New Bond Street, near Bond Street underground station.
A forensics team erected a white tent in front of Foot Locker, overlooked by Christmas lights.
Confused Boxing Day bargain hunters and tourists were coming up to the police cordon to take pictures and ask officers what had happened.
Shoppers could be seen going in and out of shops near the crime scene, such as Debenhams and Zara, but a number of stores have been forced to close.
London Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service attended the scene after police were called to reports of a stabbing, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokeswoman for the New West End Company, which represents traders on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street, declined to comment on the stabbing or the effect on retailers on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. But earlier, the company reported £15 million sales in the first three hours of the Boxing Day sales despite a drivers' strike on the London Underground.
Jace Tyrrell of the New West End Company said: "As ever, the West End's Boxing Day sales have attracted shoppers in their hundreds of thousands."
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