Tributes pour in after Hexham girl stabbed to death and boy hospitalised in Northumberland knife attack

Rahmah Ghazali
By Rahmah Ghazali
Published 29th Jan 2023, 10:09 BST
Updated 29th Jan 2023, 10:10 BST
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Tributes pour in after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Northumberland while a boy remains in hospital following the attack.

Tributes have poured in for a 15-year-old girl who was stabbed to death on Friday evening (January 27) in an attack in Hexham, Northumberland. Northumbria Police said a boy, 16, remains in police custody on suspicion of murder.

According to police, the attack took place shortly after 5.10pm on Friday evening when officers were alerted by the ambulance service to a report of a teenage boy and girl being injured in the Priestpopple area of the town centre.

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A police spokesperson said: "Emergency services attended the scene where the boy and girl – aged 16 and 15 – had suffered serious injuries consistent with having been caused by a bladed article.