A 16-year-old boy stabbed to death in south London asked "where's my mum?" and pleaded "I don't want to die" moments after he was attacked. Neighbour Dee Bamina, 35, told how she desperately tried to save Shakilus Townsend by stemming the bleeding from a wound to his chest with a bath towel after another neighbour brought the stabbed teenager into the communal doorway of her block of flats. The teenager was chased by a hooded gang wearing masks who knocked him to the ground and repeatedly stabbed him. Dee said: "I think a group of boys must have been after the boy. All I heard was them saying 'get him from the other side'." Ms Bamina saw a gang of four or five boys aged 15 to 19 with scarves covering their faces. One had a baseball bat. A light-skinned black girl was also with them, she said. She added: "I tried to ask him...
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