Walthamstow stabbing: Man rushed to hospital after being knifed

A man has been rushed to hospital after he was stabbed in east London this afternoon.

Police cordoned off Shernhall Street and Prospect Hill in Walthamstow after reports of a stabbing at just after 2.20pm.

Ambulance crews and police were called to the scene and found a man in his 20s with leg and chest injuries.

He was taken to an east London hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: “We sent an ambulance crew, an advanced paramedic and an incident response officer to the scene.

"We treated a man at the scene for leg and chest injuries and took him as a priority to a hospital in east London.”

No arrests have been made so far.