Police officers and paramedics were called to Old Kent Road at the junction with Surrey Square outside a barbershop at about 7pm on Thursday, May 26. London’s Metropolitan Police has confirmed the stabbing was not fatal and that a knife has been recovered.
The force said in a statement that officers attended a disturbance at a commercial premises in Old Kent Road in southeast London.
It added that a man was found with lacerations to his arm and a knife has been recovered.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police via 101 quoting reference CAD 6754/26May.
It comes after two men were rushed to hospital with knife wounds after a fight broke out on a street in Hackney, east London, on Wednesday in a separate incident.
Emergency services were scrambled to the scene in Bakers Hill just after 9.30pm on May 25 after reports of a disturbance involving a group of people.
The victims – in their 20s – were taken to hospital where their condition is not believed to be life-threatening.
In a statement, the Met said: “Officers attended along with London Ambulance Service and found two men, aged in their 20s, with slash injuries.
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