Man fighting for life after stabbing outside bar in central London

A Saturday night descended into chaos on a London party street when a man was critically injured in a stabbing.

The man, in his 20s, is fighting for his life after he was stabbed on Old Street, east London, in the early hours of the morning.

He was stabbed to the groin near a cocktail bar.

The emergency services rushed to Old Street after reports of an assault at about 2.20am today outside Be At One Bar.

The victim, who has not been named, remains in hospital ‘in a critical condition,’ Metropolitan Police said.

Four people were arrested within less than an hour after the alarm was raised, the force said.

‘Within 50 minutes, officers arrested three men and one woman, close to Shoreditch Park on suspicion of attempted murder. 

‘They remain in custody.’

A spokesperson for Be At One Shoreditch told Metro: ‘We are aware of a serious incident that occurred in the nearby vicinity of Be At One.

‘Our venue remains closed whilst Police carry out investigations. Our thoughts are with the victim and we wish them a full recovery’.

A stretch of Old Street remains closed to traffic, with a police crime scene cordon in place at the corner of Ruth Street and Old Street up to Curtain Road. Traffic is also blocked on Charlotte Road.

London Ambulance Service told Metro: ‘We sent a number of resources to the scene including an ambulance crew, an advanced paramedic, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer.

‘We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance.

‘The first paramedic arrived in less than four minutes.

‘We treated one person at the scene and took them to a major trauma centre as a priority.’

While an investigation is ongoing at the scene, bus routes 55, 243, N55 and N243 are on diversion.

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