38-year-old Indian-origin man stabbed to death in London, 2nd incident in three days

A 25-year-old Salman Salim was charged with his murder the following day on Saturday,

An Indian-origin man was stabbed to death in London on Friday, two days after a 27-year-old woman from Hyderabad, who was studying in the United Kingdom, was stabbed to death by a Brazilian man at her accommodation in London.

An India Today report said, a 38-year-old Indian-origin man, Aravind Sasikumar, was found with knife injuries after officers were called to a residential property on Southampton Way, Camberwell, the Metropolitan Police said.

The police in a statement said that the victim died at the scene at 1.31 am on Friday.

A 25-year-old Salman Salim was charged with his murder the following day on Saturday, the India Today report said quoting news agency PTI.

He appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on the same day and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on June 20.

A post-mortem examination carried out on Friday confirmed Sasikumar died as a result of stab wounds to the chest, the Evening Standard newspaper added.

Harriet Harman, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, described the death as a “horrific murder” and passed on her “deepest sympathy to the bereaved family”.
Friday’s incident adds to the recent string of knife attacks across the UK, which saw the deaths of British Indian teen Grace O’Malley Kumar, 19 and 27-year-old Tejaswini Kontham from Hyderabad in two separate incidents.

On June 14, Kontham was stabbed to death at a residential property in Neeld Crescent, Wembley in north London. Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder.

In a separate incident on the same day, Kumar was killed in a knife attack as she walked back from a night out with fellow cricket-loving friend Barnaby Webber, 19.

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