One boy is fighting for his life after five teenagers were stabbed at a Halloween party when 70 uninvited revellers turned up after the details were shared on Snapchat.
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details → fight → Snapchat
Two teens have now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the five boys were seriously hurt in the fracas.
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boys → arrest → fracas
Two of the five victims, all aged 16 or 17, remain in hospital, with one of them in a life-threatening condition following the attack on Saturday night.
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one → remain → night
The sixth form pupils were knifed by gate crashers who scaled a fence to get into the £800,000, four-bedroom property in a quiet tree-lined street.
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who → knife → street
A 17-year-old girl who lives in the house with her parents and sister invited her closest friends – but 100 people turned up after another Halloween bash nearby was shut down earlier in the evening.
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bash → live → evening
Her parents were at the address but were unable to stop the large numbers of youngsters arriving.
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parents → stop → youngsters
All five boys who were stabbed had been invited to attend the supervised party at the home on Park Road, Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh, where they were found injured at around 10.30pm, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said.
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Constabulary → stab → Wight
At some point after 10pm a group of teenagers climbed a wooden fence and gained access to the party despite not appearing to know anyone there.
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group → climb → anyone
Police and forensics teams in and around the scene of the stabbing that took place on Halloween
Five teenage boys suffered serious injuries following a stabbing at a Halloween party
A fight broke out and three boys aged 16 and two 17, were stabbed.
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boys → take → party
Two of them remain in a serious condition in hospital.
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Two → remain → hospital
A 17-year-old and 16-year-old, both from Southampton, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in police custody.
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old → arrest → custody
One local resident said: 'A friend of mine's son went to the party.
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friend → say → party
At some point, a group of teenagers scaled the fence and jumped into the back yard.
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group → scale → yard
'They were uninvited and didn't seem to know anyone.
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They → seem → anyone
A fight broke out between some of the boys who had been at the party and the group who had gatecrashed.
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who → break → party
It got nasty quickly as the group who had jumped over the fence pulled out knives.
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who → get → knives
They later fled the house.
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They → flee → house
One of the boys was stabbed in the shoulder, two had serious slash wounds to their stomach and torso while another had a nasty stab wound to his arm.
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another → stab → arm
'There'd been another party in Romsey earlier in the evening which had been shut down.
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which → shut → evening
Some of those we think had gone over to this party afterwards.'
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we → think → party
The stab victims are believed to be friends with the 17-year-old hosting the party as all had attended Thornden School in Chandler's Ford.
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all → believe → Ford
They had completed their GCSE exams last year and had moved to various colleges including Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh.
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They → complete → Eastleigh
A friend of the girl said: 'The gatecrashers who scaled the fence appeared to act all friendly to begin with but that changed.
A sixth form college has said it believes two of the five teenagers injured in a stabbing at a Halloween party are among its students
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two → say → students
The boys who were stabbed are not the confrontational type at all.
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who → stab → ?
I don't know what sparked the trouble.
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what → know → trouble
The girl whose party it was has had a few parties at her house before.
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it → have → house
So many people turned up to this one, though.
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people → turn → one
'I guess you've got teenagers messaging their friends, they're all on Snapchat and WhatsApp.'
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they → guess → Snapchat
A lady who lives close to the house where the party took place described the moment the stabbing happened.
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stabbing → live → moment
She said: 'I could hear a lot of noise and so I looked out from an upstairs window and I could see a lot of teenagers further up the road outside a neighbour's house.
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I → say → house
There must have been more than 80 of them at the party and some had spilled out onto the street.
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some → spill → street
They were laughing and chatting but were generally well behaved, there was no anti-social behaviour going on.
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They → laugh → ?
'But it changed suddenly when I could hear screams from a few of the girls.
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I → change → girls
That was when the fight broke out and the boys were stabbed.
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boys → break → ?
I heard a male voice say to another 'it's a knife attack.'
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it → hear → another
The air ambulance landed in the recreation ground nearby.
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ambulance → land → ground
'I saw one of the boys brought out of the house on a stretcher.
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one → see → stretcher
He looked in a terrible way.
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He → look → way
The medics looked as though they were giving him gas and air and a blood transfusion.
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they → look → gas
They must have worked on him on the pavement outside the house for about half an hour to 40-minutes before he was rushed away in an ambulance.
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he → work → ambulance
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