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A mum-of-one was stabbed to death last night just yards away from a fatal shooting.

The victim was knifed in the chest outside a tower block in Chalk Farm, near Camden in north London at around 11pm.

Met Police and paramedics dashed to the scene and, though CPR was administered, they were unable to save the woman.

The mum of a six-year-old boy was believed to be in her 20s and has been named locally as Shakirs.

A trail of blood could be seen on the ground near the scene of her death on Monday.

Terry Ellis, from the Camden Against Violence, said the stabbing victim regularly attended the group's events.

He said: "She's a mother, she's got a six-year-old kid. As far as I know it was an argument she wasn't really involved in.

"She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It wasn't gang-related, it wasn't drug-related.

"She was a wonderful young lady, always happy. She's got a lovely son and was just a normal mother."

Two other women suffered slash wounds. Scotland Yard said a 35-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Friends of the victim left floral tributes at the scene on Monday.

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One, who gave her name as Ronney, 21, described her as a "really, really good mum", who "adored" her son.

"She was part of everyone's life, she helped everyone," she said. "She was part of my family. She was lovely."

A 31-year-old mum, who was at her nearby home when the stabbing took place, said: "I saw the first girl lying on the floor, she looked so young, they all looked young.

“Then I heard another girl screaming and saying ‘can somebody help me, my hands and my fingers are hanging off.'

“It is just very upsetting. I didn’t see what she looked like as there were so many people outside.

“Now a woman has been arrested - it is normally boys on boys.

“It is shocking to hear it was a woman."

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Another local, who also asked not to be named, said: “The police tried CPR until the ambulance came. They were trying desperately to start her heart.

“They were doing it straight on on the forecourt. They had to do it there and then to give her any chance at all.

“They were there extremely quickly. They were absolutely brilliant, they did everything they could.

“There were three police cars, three paramedics and the severe trauma crews. They were amazing.

“It was not the first stabbing we have had here.”

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The suspect remains at a north London police station.

A Met Police statement said: "Police were called at 23:13hrs on Sunday, 8 September to reports of a stabbing on Belmont Street, NW1.

"Officers attended and found a woman, believed to be aged in her early 20s, suffering from a stab injury.

"They immediately provided first aid until the arrival of the London Ambulance Service.

"The woman was pronounced dead at the scene at 23:55hrs."

Minutes after the stabbing, just yards away, a man was shot dead in what is believed to be an unrelated murder in Kentish Town.

An air ambulance was sent to the scene but the victim was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

There is no link between the two north London deaths.