A Samur-Protection ambulance at the place where the homicide was registered.
/ CITY OF MADRID
Madrid has registered the first homicide of the year within hours of starting 2022.
A 19-year-old young man has died in the Villaverde district, after receiving at least five stab wounds, after being attacked by a group of about 10 people, according to witnesses.
The health services have treated in the vicinity another victim, also 19 years old, who has been seriously injured with a stab in the lower back, according to a spokeswoman for Emergencias Madrid.
The first investigations suggest that it is an aggression between youth gangs.
At 10.50 am, the emergency services received a call that there was a young man with stab wounds, in front of number 54 on Sahara Street. A witness has begun to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers until the arrival of the Samur-Civil Protection doctors. The victim had penetrating wounds to the chest and abdomen, which have affected major organs. The health workers have continued with the resuscitation, but in the end they have only been able to certify death.
A few minutes later, another call reported that another young man was lying on the ground with a stab in the street of Agapito, located about 200 meters from the place of the first attack.
The health workers have found the young man with a wound in the lumbar area and, after stabilizing him, they have transferred him to the emergency service of the 12 de Octubre hospital with a serious prognosis and pending to check if he suffered any further injuries.
Witnesses have told the police that the attackers were made up of about 10 young people, who fled on the run after attacking the deceased young man.
The events took place near the National Police station in the Villaverde district.
The agents have been deployed in the area and arrests are not ruled out in the next few hours.
Agents from Group VI of Homicides, belonging to the Provincial Brigade of Judicial Police, and specialists of Violent Crimes (Devi) from the Provincial Brigade of Scientific Police have been transferred to the place to search for evidence and initiate investigations.
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