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STREET VIOLENCE: Gangs clash: two stabbed
POLICE are studying video tape of a gang clash in Peterborough city centre in which two men were stabbed.
POLICE are studying video tape of a gang clash in Peterborough city centre in which two men were stabbed. The two victims were taken to Peterborough District Hospital and are believed to have been detained.
Today, there was concern that the incident in the Park Road and Geneva Street area could be linked to a series of disturbances in the Gladstone Street and Lincoln Road area last month.
The two men, who are in their late twenties, were injured after a fight broke out between Kurds and Iraqis last night.
Club owner Del Singh arrived in the area shortly after the stabbing incident.
"It was 5pm and I had come in to complete some paper work," said Mr Singh, proprietor of The Park, in Park Road, Peterborough.
"There was a heavy police presence in the area when I arrived and I asked officers what had happened. They said there had been an altercation between two groups on the corner of Park Road and Geneva Street.
"We have a camera on the side of the club which is facing in that direction and I offered the police the video tape footage of what had happened.
"When I checked the footage, although the view was partly obscured, you could see lots of people converging in the area.
"The tape is now with the police."
Father David Jennings, parish priest at St Peter and All Souls' Catholic Church, in Geneva Street, heard the commotion near his presbytery.
He said: "I heard a lot of wailing and shouting – there was obviously an incident going on.
"I saw some people running away, and one person on the ground who looked like he had been stabbed.
"Then the police and the ambulance arrived and he was carted off to hospital.''
Father Jennings said the police cordoned off the road after the stabbing and began a search of the church's gardens.
It is believed they were looking for weapons that could have been dumped in the undergrowth.
It is not known if anything was found.
Father Jennings claimed yesterday's stabbings were the third in his neighbourhood in the last nine months, although the police have, so far, been unable to confirm this.
Former councillor for Central ward Mohammed Younis said he hoped the incident yesterday was not a sign of continued racial tension.
He said: "We don't want to see this sort of incident in the area again."
Police were appealing for witnesses to the incident today, but were unable to confirm details of what had taken place.
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