A promising accountant left a tragic voicemail message to his mother telling her 'I'm wounded' moments before he died having been hacked with a Samurai sword.

Heartbroken Fowsiya Abdi decribed how her son Sadiq Adaam Mohamed, 20, had been threatened with a Rambo knife just two months before his murder in London.

It is the third murder in the family, with Sadiq's brother Mohamed having been fatally knifed last September in Camden Town while their cousin, Mohamed Abdullahi, was stabbed to death in 2013.

At the family home in Mornington Crescent, north London, Fowsiya, 48, fought back tears as she said: 'He left me a message that said, "I'm wounded, I got wounded"'.

Fowsiya, originally from Somalia, told MailOnline: 'I feel so angry. This was a revenge attack by a gang that we think was not Somali. We came to this country for peace and we found only blood.'

The aspiring accountant, named locally as Sadiq Adaam Mohamed (pictured), was found with serious stab wounds in Malden Road, in Belsize Park, around 10.15pm

The teenager, named locally as Abdikarim Hassan, died in the street after being attacked outside Savers Mini Market corner shop in Bartholomew Road, Camden, at about 8.30pm

Abdikarin was fatally stabbed in Bartholomew Road in Camden, north London, last night

The two stabbings occurred less than a mile apart in north-west London last night. The first attack, in Bartholomew Road happened at 8.30pm and this was followed by the attack in Malden Road around 10.15pm

Heartbroken Fowsiya Abdi (pictured) decribed how her son Sadiq Adaam Mohamed, 20, had been threatened with a Rambo knife just two months before his murder in London

Sadiq was hacked to death by a 'samurai sword' carrying gang of four men. His brother Mohamed (left), was stabbed to death in September 2017, some four years after and their cousin Mohamed Abdullahi was stabbed to death in 2013

A teenager boy, 17, named locally as Abdikarim Hassan, was stabbed to death outside Savers Mini Market on Bartholomew Road last night (pictured this morning)

The aspiring accountant was found with serious stab wounds in Malden Road, in Belsize Park, around 10.15pm.

He was the second man of Somali origin stabbed to death within the space of a mile in less than an hour-and-a-half last night.

Witnesses said the gang of four fled on foot as passers-by desperately tried to save him after he was stabbed in the heart.

Just two hours earlier a 17-year-old boy, named locally as Abdikarim Hassan, was stabbed to death in front of his mother in the worst night of violence in the capital since New Year's Eve, which brought the bloody toll of stab deaths to 15 this year.

Abdikarim died in the street after being attacked less than a mile away, outside Savers Mini Market corner shop in Bartholomew Road, Camden, at about 8.30pm.

Scotland Yard said it had not ruled out a possible link between the two incidents. Police are also investigating possible gang links to both killings.

No arrests have been made but police have stepped up patrols of the area and have warned the community of 'retaliatory' attacks.

Last September Mrs Abdi's elder son Mohamed Aadam was knifed to death outside a takeaway. In 2013 his cousin Mohamed Abdullahi was also fatally stabbed in the heart in a case of mistaken identity by a gang.

Yesterday the family released a statement saying: 'This is now the constant theme in our community. We are made to believe that the police are here to protect us, but how does a mother feel her kids are protected when she has lost two in the same vicinity within months? We have lots of questions and need answers. Somebody has to listen to us.'

Camden Police were tonight taking measures to take steps against the spate of stabbings in the capital.

They tweeted: 'There were two other stabbings. Thankfully those were non fatal. We have a huge amount of Police on tonight and have stopped a car with four armed men already. Slowly filling up the cells.'

Paramedics gave first aid but could not save the victim and he was pronounced dead at Bartholomew Road (pictured this morning) shortly after 9pm

The distraught mother, who has now lost two sons to knife violence in the capital, said: 'Police refused to let me see my son at the scene...after a while someone came to see me and said Sadiq was dead.

'I don't know who killed my son, I do not know why?

'In September Mohamed was killed and now last night Sadiq was killed, and four years ago my nephew was too, they were all 20.

'It's unacceptable, I am now so worried for my other children, they all live in the same postcode.

'Sadiq was an excellent boy he was very close to me and his family, he was at Middlesex University studying business and working part-time in Tesco.

'He was an excellent son, he did not do any drugs, or smoke, or drink alcohol, he was a clean boy.

'I cannot express how angry I am. I would like for anyone carrying a knife to be punished and taken off the streets.

'On Boxing Day my son was threatened with a Rambo knife by two boys who had a gun as well.

Sadiq's murder may have been linked to that but we do not know.

'On Tuesday night at 6pm Sadiq was here and he said 'I'm going to the gym and then to see my friends, I'm coming back.'

'It's my biggest regret that I let him go, I am so shocked.

'I feel so angry. This was a revenge attack by a gang that we think was not Somali. We came to this country for peace and we found only blood.

'My family have been attacked with guns and knives on the estate and other places in London. Sometimes we were robbed. They told us if we told the police and they went to prison, they would be out in six months and take more revenge.

'Our boys didn't do anything. Sadiq was a university student. I feel so angry. How can we protect our children when they get attacked even if they are doing nothing wrong?

Police were called last night to reports of a stabbing in Malden Road (pictured), about 15 minutes' walk away from another stabbing in Bartholomew Road, where they found a young man with 'serious stab injuries'

'Two months ago, Sadiq came running home banging on the door. Two boys had been waiting for him and ambushed him. He shouted, 'Mum, mum, they're after me'.

'We let him in and took a picture of the two boys as they were running away from the scene. They were wearing hoods and holding a gun and a knife. We called the police and they came but they didn't chase the boys, they just took a statement.

'I pointed at the building the boys ran into but they were more focussed on taking a statement.'

Speaking through a family member who was translating, Mrs Abdi added: 'Young Somali boys are being slaughtered just because they are Somali. What is giving these boys confidence to walk around with massive knives that are used for slaughtering cattle? It's because they can get away with it.

'The police are letting down the Somali youth of Camden.'

A machete was seen on the ground with what is believed to blood on the pavement - residents said Sadiq Aadam was attacked by a gang of four with a Samurai sword

On one of London's bloodiest nights this year, there were reports of several other non fatal knifings in Camden last night, although it is not known if they are linked.

In the first fatal attack last night Abdikarim Hassan was stabbed to death in front of his mother as he visited a nearby corner shop.

One resident, who didn't want to be named, said: 'The boy was playing football on the green just after 7pm. I see him playing football every day and going to school, and he went to the shop to get a drink. I heard there was blue van and someone jumped on him, and he got stabbed.

'His mum saw him die. What do you say to someone who just watched their child die? He's 17 - he's just a baby. He was never rude, he was lovely. I saw him taking his brother to play football.'

The woman added: 'He just went to the corner shop to get a drink and now he's just lying there. They put pictures of his dead body on the internet and there's a scorecard going around.'

Family friend Layla Awod said she had just visited the mother of the victim, who she was neighbours with.

Speaking on the Peckwater Estate, she said the mother told her she saw her son lying on the floor as he died.

The mother went to the crime scene after seeing an ambulance and hearing lots of noise, and recognised the jacket of the victim.

'She said (to the police) that jacket looks like her son's and can she have a look if it's her son and they refused,' Ms Awod said.

'She called his mobile and it was ringing and that's when she realised that it was her son, and they refused to let her in.'

Ms Awod said the boy was on his way back home from college when he was stabbed.

Police forensics officers pictured at the scene in Malden Road, Camden, London

Abdikarim was stabbed to death in front of his mother having gone to the shop to get a drink while playing football on the Peckwater Estate (pictured, Bartholomew Road, in Camden)

Police continue to scour the area for clues, as the murder investigation continues

Abdikarim was a former pupil at William Ellis secondary school in Camden and was studying at Westminster College.

He came to the UK from Somalia when he was two-years old and was the eldest of six children, his uncle Yusuf Ahmed said.

He described his nephew as 'very helpful', adding: 'He was helping his mum, whenever he was off from college, he was taking his siblings to school.'

Abdikarim's aunt Fatima Deria said: 'It's very unfortunate - 17 years old - it's sad.'

Speaking on behalf of mother Shamso Mohamed Ahmed, Ms Deria added: 'She said she came here for their safety, to flee from home. But he's not safe is he? He's dead.'

Witnesses said they saw him staggering from the estate, before collapsing outside the shop where a local doctor battled to save his life.

One local said: 'He was a lovely boy, he was always playing football on the pitch on the estate. He had just been going to the shop when he was attacked. It's become like a territorial war zone around here.'

A 19-year-old man who lives near Bartholomew Road told BBC Radio London the stabbings were becoming 'everyday behaviour for these youngsters'.

'It's just normal now. It's getting to the point where it's getting ridiculous.'

Police have expressed growing concern about a rise in knife crime, and staged a nationwide crackdown last week in a bid to stem the tide. Pictured, forensics officers at the scene

This was the scene in Malden Road, in Camden, this morning, where a man was stabbed to death last night

Officers were later called to reports of the disturbance in Malden Road at about 10.15pm and found Mr Mohamed with serious stab wounds.

He was the 15th person stabbed to death in London since New Year's Eve. Six of them have been teenagers.

Sadiq's cousin, who did not wish to be named, said: 'I don't know what he was doing, it is so traumatising. We are all devastated.

'Sadiq was studying finance at university, he was so intelligent and happy, he wanted to be an accountant and was working in a shop to fund his studies.

'It's a senseless killing, a senseless murder, Sadiq wanted to be successful, he was a bright student and very intelligent. He loved his family, he was extremely family orientated, everyone thought he would do really well.'

She added: 'Sadiq is the third person in my family to be murdered, his brother Mohamed was murdered in September and my brother Mohamed Abdullahi was killed in 2013. It's horrific, this needs to stop now.'

Describing the scene last night, a resident said: 'I heard a scream, a loud scream and I went to my window and he had been slashed with a samurai sword.

'There were four guys in a car and one jumped out and slashed him.

'People were screaming for towels, to throw down more and more towels, I threw out four.

'The blood was gushing out and people were desperately trying to stop it.

'The ambulance didn't come for about 30 minutes and the police were trying to resuscitate him, just pumping, pumping, pumping.'

Police surround a cordon at the scene on Malden Road where a man was stabbed to death

One resident, who saw the attackers fleeing the scene, said: 'I saw these four kids in tracksuits running off. One turned to look at me, but they just kept running.

'I thought at first they were just playing around and then I heard the screaming.'

Another local resident added: 'I heard screaming and shouting and then I looked out my window and I could see him on the floor. There was blood everywhere and he was holding his abdomen to try and stop the bleeding.'

Denise Arnold, 63, who lives in Malden Road, said: 'My neighbour rushed out because she knew there was something bad. She stood on her bed and she could see.

'So she rang the 999 call and she was told to go down and check he was breathing.'

She said she saw a large group of people gathered around the victim, adding: 'There was a lot of screaming.'

At around 11.30pm she said she heard more 'wailing and screaming' at the scene.

How many fatal stabbings have there been in London since New Year's Eve? Two more fatal knife attacks have claimed lives in London as police battle a rise in violent crime. So far this year 15 people have been stabbed to death in the capital, five of whom were teenagers. 31 December: An 18-year-old man was knifed in Larmans Road in Enfield, at 11.30am and died in hospital later that evening. 31 December: Taofeek Lamidi, 20, was repeatedly stabbed during an attack in Memorial Avenue, West Ham, on New Year's Eve and a postmortem found the cause of death to be a knife wound to the heart. 31 December: Kyall Parnell, 17, was attacked in front of horrified revellers on his way to a New Year's Eve party and died after being chased through traffic in Tulse Hill, south London. 1 January: A 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Bartholomew Court, Old Street 3 January: 44-year-old woman was found dead after she had her throat slashed Two men were stabbed to death within hours of one another in the worst night of violence in the capital since New Year's Eve when four men died. Fifteen people have been stabbed to death in London this year 11 January: Harry Uzoka - who had modelled for brands including Mercedes and Zara - was found after being stabbed in Shepherd's Bush 3 February: Kwabena Nelson, 22, was ambushed in Tottenham in the early hours where he was fatally stabbed 3 February: 19 year-old man Hasan Ozkan was stabbed to death in Abbey Road, Barking 5 February: Juan Olmos Saca died in hospital on Sunday after being stabbed in Peckham 9 February: A 55-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in Brays Tower, Primrose Hill 11 February: A 19-year-old man is fatally stabbed in Streatham 14 February: Promise Nkenda, 17, was fatally stabbed in Newham, east London 18 February: Lewis Blackman, 19, who grew up on the Peckwater estate in Kentish Town, was killed in Kensington. 20 February: Teenager was found with stab wounds in Bartholomew Road, Camden, at about 8.30pm. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers were later called to reports of a disturbance in Malden Road at about 10.15pm and found a man, believed to be about 20 years old, with fatal stab wounds.


Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command have launched separate investigations and said police are working to establish whether there are any links between the two incidents.

No arrests have been made.

A third stabbing took place in Aldenham Street, Somers Town, at 8:30pm. A 16-year-old was hospitalised with 'non-life threatening' knife wounds.

A spokesman for the Met Police told MailOnline that wasn't linked to the two fatal stabbings.

Camden Police were also called to another stabbing on Tuesday afternoon where a man who is believed to be in his 40s was attacked in Kilburn High Road shortly before 3.30pm.

He was taken to hospital by London Air Ambulance and is in a stable condition.

The force have not said if they believe the attack was linked to the two murders.

A third stabbing took place in Aldenham Street, Somers Town, at 8:30pm. A 16-year-old was hospitalised with 'non-life threatening' knife wounds

Three fatal stabbings in four days in the capital The latest murders in Camden, north London, bring the total number of people stabbed to death in the capital this year to 15, including five teenagers. Lewis Blackman, 19, was killed in Kensington on Sunday. Friends said he was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' when he was set upon outside Logan Place. Witnesses told how a gang of about eight youths, some armed with sticks, shouted 'let's chase him down', before he was stabbed. The teenager, known as Dotz, was found in the street by police called to a disturbance outside a party. Advertisement

A section 60 order - which gives police the right to search people when they believe serious violence will take place - was put in place overnight.

Inspector Paul Clarke said: 'There will be an increased police presence and an increase in the activity of the gangs unit to reduce the possibility that any one may consider retaliatory action.

'If anyone in the community knows anything about the incidents or the possibility of any ongoing occurrences they should contact police and let us know so that we can help to save lives before this kind of tragedy is repeated.'

The first attack took place just metres away from where a candlelit vigil was held for another teenage stabbing victim on Monday night.

Lewis Blackman, 19, who grew up on the Peckwater estate in Kentish Town, was killed in Kensington on Sunday outside Freddie Mercury's former home.

Official figures show that 2017 was the worst year for knife deaths among young people since at least 2002.

Forty-six people aged 25 or under were stabbed to death in London, up by 21 compared with the previous year, according to police figures.

DCS Sean Yates, Scotland Yard's head of knife crime, blamed social media as an increasing factor in escalating grudges between youngsters that led to knife attacks.

He also told the Guardian courts were failing to enforce a 'two strikes' law aimed at jailing those caught with a knife twice, which was frustrating law enforcement.

The sharp rise in the number of young people killed by knife crime in London has come despite Scotland Yard stepping up its use of suppression and enforcement tactics, carrying out more stop and search, more weapon sweeps and other activity on the streets.

The Met commissioner, Cressida Dick, has said reversing rising violent crime is a priority.

Speaking today she said: 'I have spoken all too often at the anger I feel at the senseless waste of life, today two more families are suffering a terrible loss and my thoughts are with them.

'The frequency with which some of our young people are prepared to take each other's lives is shocking. London must come together to make it clear that this cannot continue. We will not police our way out of this problem. There is a role for all of us – London's public, our partners and the police.'

She appealed directly to young people saying: 'There will be young people out today who are carrying knives - stop and think. Do you really want your life to end? Or end someone else's and waste your own life in prison? My challenge to everyone in London is to ask each and every person to think about what you can do to help us tackle this blight on our city.'

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was 'desperately saddened' by the deaths, and added: 'Two more lives needlessly lost to knife crime.'

He has requested an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service to discuss what can be done 'to tackle the evil of knife attacks on Britain's streets'.

Keir Starmer, Holborn and St Pancras MP, said: 'The deaths of two young people in Camden last night is truly shocking. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and to all those affected at this difficult time.

'Violence has no place on our streets and these crimes are a reminder that we must continue to do all we can to keep our community safe.'

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

The first attack took place just metres away from where a candlelit vigil was held for another teenage stabbing victim on Monday night. Lewis Blackman, 19, who grew up on the Peckwater estate in Kentish Town, was killed in Kensington on Sunday

The victim who was stabbed in Kensington on Sunday was named as 19-year-old Lewis Blackman, also from Camden