By James Wood For Mailonline
Published: 18:25 GMT, 26 March 2019 | Updated: 18:25 GMT, 26 March 2019
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A teenager is fighting for his life after he was stabbed multiple times in London this afternoon - as the capital's knife crime epidemic continues.
Police were called to a road in Kidbrooke, near Blackheath, south east London at 3.24pm following reports that a male was being threatened with a knife.
Paramedics and officers attended the scene in Thyme Close, Kidbrooke and found a man, aged around 18, suffering from multiple stab wounds.
Stunned residents have told how they saw blood 'gushing' from a wound to his side after he was chased by a car. Two men jumped out armed with knives and attacked the man, thought to be aged just 18.
The victim has been taken hospital in a life threatening condition. An air ambulance landed in a play park (pictured) close to the scene of the stabbing in Kidbrooke, near Blackheath, south east London
Children on their way home from school are understood to have seen the sickening attack.
Six police cars were parked up outside a block of flats which was cordoned off by officers on the new build estate off Nelson Mandela Road which is the site of an old RAF depot.
More than a dozen uniformed officers could be seen as forensics officers carried out a detailed search of the area where the teen was stabbed.
One witness, who said she was too scared to be named, described how the drama unfolded.
She said: 'I was coming home from work when I saw a black car come speeding past me. It was going really fast. The car smashed into two others and made a loud noise.
'Two men got out of the car armed with huge knives.
'They were very large and fearsome. The blades were massive.
