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A 17-year-old boy has become the third teenager stabbed to death in Birmingham in the last two weeks.

The schoolboy was found seriously injured in the Bordesley Green area of the city just after 2pm today.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, West Midlands Police said in a statement.

No arrests have been made and a murder investigation has been launched.

Officers in the area will be using Section 60 powers, giving them the ability to stop and search people without reasonable grounds where they believe there to be a risk of violence.

On Wednesday February 20 Abdullah Muhammad, 16, was found knifed to death in the Small Heath area of the city.

Sidali Mohamed, 16, was fatally stabbed outside Joseph Chamberlain College on Wednesday February 13. His life support was turned off on February 15.

One man at the scene of today's knifing, who wished to remain anonymous, told BirmingamLive: “There’s a police presence. The police incident support van is there.

“There are a lot of detectives on the scene. There are loads of people standing around.

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“Lots of kids have gathered. People are parking up and heading down to the scene to see if it is somebody they know."

Detectives have not said if they are linking the killings.

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We were called to reports of an assault.

"We sent two ambulances, a paramedic officer, the West Midlands Care Team and a BASICS Doctor.

“Ambulance staff found a man in a very serious condition. They worked on him at the scene but it was not possible to save him and he was pronounced dead at the scene.”

The youngster is also the fourth person in the last two weeks to die from knife wounds. Over the weekend, a 29-year-old man died after being knifed at a block of flats in the Harborne area of Birmingham.