The Metropolitan Police stated that “a young man was killed in a knife attack during the famous London carnival in the Notting Hill area”, explaining that “at around 8 pm on Monday, 29 August, the police received a knife attack and were delivered. The wounded man was taken to a hospital in west London, where he expired despite the best efforts of the medical staff.”

In a statement, police said they were “investigating the murder of a 21-year-old,” noting that “209 people were arrested over the last two days of the carnival weekend on charges of assault, carrying weapons, drug possession and other violations.”

For its part, the Daily Mail notes that “the police have been informed of a number of other knife attacks during the carnival.”

The Notting Hill Carnival has been held annually at the end of August since 1966. It is usually organized and attended mainly by residents who came from the Caribbean and began to settle in West London after the fifties of the last century. In recent years, the carnival has typically been visited by about a million guests. Carnival is usually associated with a sharp increase in the number of crimes and various offenses related to drug use, violence and the use of knives.