Schoolgirl killing adds to 200 UK knifing deaths
(03-07 21:12)
A teenage girl on her way to school has been stabbed and killed aboard a bus in the UK, media reports said today.
The death of the 16-year-old schoolgirl in the morning rush hour in Birmingham adds another victim to the disturbing list of knifing fatalities in Britain, totaling 200. That's nearly one killing a day.
Knife crimes continue to be a persistent problem in Britain.
Data presented to lawmakers in November show that in the year to June 2012 there were 29,613 recorded offenses involving knives or other sharp instruments.
There were 200 murders using a sharp instrument in 2011-2012, accounting for 39 percent of all murders.
Police have launched a hunt for the attacker of the 16-year-old, the Guardian reports. Officers are looking for a suspect described as a black male in his late teens or early twenties wearing a jacket with a tiger, or similar, large motif on the back and dark colored trousers.
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