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Five youths have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 18-year-old man in south-east London on 10 October, police have said.

The youngsters, aged between 14 and 17, were detained alongside an 18-year-old man over the death of Clinton Evbota, who was stabbed to death on the Brandon Estate in Camberwell, south-east London.

The six males were all detained on 18 October accused of killing Evbota and bailed the following day.

Evbota died at the scene near a nursery school, an hour after emergency services were called. Police said the teenager had been chased by a group of men who then set upon him on the ground, inflicting fatal injuries.

Evbota’s murder was the second in the capital in one day: five hours before his death, 15-year-old Baptista Adjei was knifed to death outside a shopping centre in Stratford, east London.

His aunt, Aretha Adjei, told the London Evening Standard: “He had just finished school. He spoke to his mum on the phone about coming home after popping into McDonald’s with a friend. Twenty minutes later he was stabbed to death.”