Teenager was stabbed and clubbed

By Tim Castle

LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Friday a 16-year-old boy stabbed to death in a London street had been attacked by at least three male assailants armed with a baseball bat.

Shakilus Townsend died in hospital overnight after the attack in Thornton Heath, south London, on Thursday afternoon.

Police found him with a number of stab wounds in the entrance to a block of flats after receiving a call from a member of the public.

Witness Dee Bamina told Sky News Townsend cried out as he lay bleeding: "I don't want to die. I want my mum."

She said his last words before paramedics took him away were: "I cannot breathe."

An air ambulance flew Townsend to St George's Hospital in Tooting, but he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Up to seven black youths had been in the area of the attack before the murder, Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons told Sky News.

"I know that three particular individuals, males, attacked him with a baseball bat and attacked him with a knife," Lyons said.