Mile End bus knife attack: Man, 34, charged over triple stabbing
A man has been charged over the triple stabbing on a bus in Mile End - which left one passenger in a critical condition.
Samuel Modeste, 34, of High Road, Leytonstone, has been charged with three counts of causing grievous bodily harm and one count of possessing a bladed article in a public place.
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Hide AdHe will appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court today over the allegations.
Police were called in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after people reported seeing a man wielding a knife on the N25 night bus.
When emergency services arrived, outside Mile End station, Tower Hamlets, they found three people injured.
A 34-year-old man had been stabbed, and was taken to an east London hospital.
He remains there in a critical condition.
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Hide AdTwo other men – aged 34 and 22 – were also taken to hospital with non-life threatening slash wounds.
A father-of-two who lives nearby said: “It must have been about 1am when I went downstairs to make myself a cup of tea.
“I saw these blue lights shining through the window and went out to see what had happened.
“It was pouring with rain at the time, so I grabbed a jumper with a hood.
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Hide Ad“That’s when I saw there were about seven police cars and two ambulances.
“There was a bus outside Mile End station and the police were on it.
“There was no screaming or bangs or anything like that.”
He added: “I spoke to one of the paramedics who said someone had been stabbed on the bus.
“As I looked across towards the station, I saw them carrying someone out on a stretcher.”