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A teenage boy has died and another is in hospital after a double stabbing following a brawl outside an east London takeaway.
Police had been called to reports of the fight outside a fast food shop in Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, at 6.20pm on Saturday.
When officers arrived on the scene they found a 16-year-old suffering from stab wounds.
Police performed first aid on the youngster before he was rushed by ambulance to an east London hospital.
Just seven minutes later, police were called by paramedics to nearby Whyhill Walk where a 17-year-old had been found with knife wounds.
Despite efforts to save him, the boy was pronounced dead in hospital on Sunday morning at 3.25am.
Residents said the teenager had managed to get to the Cross Keys pub before he collapsed from his injuries.
The 16-year-old boy is currently in a stable condition in hospital.
Photos from the scene showed a string of police tape cordoning off the area around Church Elm Lane.
Neighbour Sidney McCallaghan said a huge swathe of the road had been cordoned off while police investigated.
He told the Standard: "There was a scuffle between some young boys and then they just started stabbing each other.
"One went down in Church Elm Lane.
"The one who was the most severely hurt, he came down Church Street and made it to the pub where he collapsed."
He said: "We don’t know if he was followed and was attacked as he walked, but it looks like he was trying to get away quite quickly."
Detectives from the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command unit are now investigating and trying to discover if both teenagers were stabbed in the same incident.
No one has been arrested over the stabbings so far, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.
Anyone who has information is asked to contact police via 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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