Croydon stabbing: Police and paramedics at shopping centre incident | UK News

Police at the scene in Croydon (Picture: X)

Police have responded to an ‘incident’ outside of a busy shopping centre in south London today.

Officers were called to Wellesley Road in Croydon just after 9am this morning.

London Ambulance Service and officers from Scotland Yard could be seen putting up a cordon at around 9.15am.

Officers were called at around 9am today (Picture: @Rakan_uk_pc)

wkld @Rakan_uk_pc ? 20m Croydon little girl has been stabbed in the neck in the school run bus @myldn @999London — A cordon has been put up around the scene (Picture: @Rakan_uk_pc)

A witness told LBC: ‘There were ambulances and police all around the area.’Traffic was still moving at this point and people were being transferred from a bus onto different ones as it happened just by the bus stop outside the Whitgift.

‘A policeman said to me and a few other women it was a stabbing.’He said the perpetrators hadn’t been found at this point, they had ran towards east Croydon.’

A London 60 route red bus can also be seen in one picture, surrounded by police cars, with officers standing nearby.

Transport for London has diverted its 60, 407, and 455 routes due to the incident.

Metro.co.uk has contacted the Met Police and London Ambulance Service for comment.

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