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The unnamed victim was attacked on Upper Clapton Road in Hackney, just across the road from a Shell petrol station.

Police and London Ambulance crews are on the scene.

In a statement, the Met Police said: "Police were called at 14.55 hours to reports that a male had been stabbed in Upper Clapton Road, E5.

"Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found a man, aged in his 20s, suffering from a stab wound."

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Roads have been cordoned off in the area.

The man has been rushed to a hospital in East London.

It comes just one week after police were called to a fatal attack on the same road outside a Betfred bookies.

Earlier today a man was stabbed on a busy rush-hour train in East London.

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This month London's murder rate overtook New York's for the first time since records began.

No arrests have yet been made.

The man's injuries are not said to be life-threatening.