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Police have named a suspected knifeman after a mother was stabbed to death on the streets of Bradford yesterday afternoon. 

Officers are appealing for members of the public to report any sightings of Habibur Masum, 25, who is from the Oldham area.

He is wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman in the Westgate area of Bradford city centre yesterday. 

He is described as an Asian man, of slim build. He is pictured on CCTV wearing a duffle coat with three large horizontal lines of grey, white and black, light blue or grey tracksuit bottoms with a small black emblem on the left pocket and maroon trainers. A witness also reported seeing him wearing a grey hoody with the hood up.

He is believed to have links to the Burnley and Chester areas.

According to eyewitnesses the 27-year-old woman was stabbed 'four to five times' in the neck while shopping with a friend in Bradford. 

Police today continued to search for the knifeman, who ran away following the stabbing, leaving the woman, who is of Pakistani descent, dying on the pavement.

She was outside a convenience store, waiting for her friend who had gone to buy goods inside, when she was set upon.

Geo Khan, 69, who runs a fruit a veg shop, tried to resuscitate the woman, who was one of his customers.

He said: 'I was working on Saturday and I heard screams and ran out of my shop.

'I saw that the lady was lying face down on the pavement next to a pushchair with her five -month-old baby inside.

'I turned her over. There was a lot of blood and I checked for a pulse, but couldn't find one.

'I could see the knife wounds to her neck and I tried to do CPR.

'Her friend was screaming.'

Mr Khan said a doctor who was passing in a car stopped to help.

'He picked up a pulse and I went to get a sheet to put over her until the ambulance came,' he

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