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One man killed, seven injured in stabbings in Birmingham

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By Phil Noble

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Not much news out yet, hope there are no fatalities!!

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Police have reported one person dead and seven injured. Not much in the way of details yet.

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This appears to be just the latest in a series of stabbings and shootings in Birmingham over the past few weeks.

A sampling of local news since 22 Aug:

four people were knifed during a vicious melee involving up to 15 people in the Jewellery Quarter...

a knifeman allegedly threatened to kill people inside a mini market...

Later the same afternoon, a man was stabbed in the neck and arm as a fight broke out...

a man was found slumped in the roadside with a fatal stab wound to his chest just before 5pm...

Naasir Francis, 22, died after he was shot in the stomach at the junction of Lozells Road, Lozells, at around 12.30pm on Wednesday (August 26)...

Murtaza Nazir, 26, was fatally shot in Bagshaw Road, Stechford - reportedly a street away from his home - just before 8pm on Friday night (August 28)...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sickening-12-hours-violence-at-18816558

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/heartbreak-three-men-murdered-birmingham-18855018

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Good thing they have strict gun laws.

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"Near the area known as GAY VILLAGE"...?

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Some people did something...

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boy oh boy has Jolly Old England changed since the last time I visited back in the day. How could such a lovely bunch who have things like tea time, cheerful "Bobbies", and rustic little villages with quaint pubs become such a violent, stabbing Isle where gays dare not walk down the street.

WHAT has happened??

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How could such a lovely bunch who have things like tea time, cheerful "Bobbies", and rustic little villages with quaint pubs become such a violent, stabbing Isle where gays dare not walk down the street.WHAT has happened??

You watch too much telly young fella, we've been robbing, stabbing and shagging each other for decades.

We still have tea time though.

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You watch too much telly young fella, we've been robbing, stabbing and shagging each other for decades.

Nah. An occasional incident, yes. But the scale which this is happening nowadays is something which didn't exist 20 years ago.

It appears that this stabbing was part of a mass fight between black and asian gangs.

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Eyewitness describes what happened:

https://twitter.com/DavidhBrown/status/130257706110672486

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Missed the end of the link:

https://twitter.com/DavidhBrown/status/1302577061106724864

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Nah. An occasional incident, yes. But the scale which this is happening nowadays is something which didn't exist 20 years ago.

Possibly yeah. I've been out of the country for most of this century.

I grew up in Liverpool up until the late 80's, petty crime was just a part of life. Knife crime seems to be horrid thesedays though.

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> It appears that this stabbing was part of a mass fight between black and asian gangs.

No, this was not part of a mass fight between black and Asian gangs!

This was ‘one black man’ calmly stabbing people out enjoying themselves, in a predominantly gay part of Birmingham.

As the perpetrator is still at large, the motivation is unknown but it appears to be a senseless one...

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Nah. An occasional incident, yes. But the scale which this is happening nowadays is something which didn't exist 20 years ago.

Good news is that overall the murder rate in the UK is lower than it was 20 years ago.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/murder-homicide-rate

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