The British Metropolitan Police said that a young man was killed as a result of a knife attack during the famous London Carnival in the Notting Hill area of the city."At approximately 8pm on Monday, August 29, police received a signal of a knife attack. The injured man was taken to a hospital in west London, where he breathed his last despite all the efforts of the medical staff there," the police said in a statement.

In its statement, the police indicated that they were investigating the death of the 21-year-old.Police said that 209 people were arrested on the two days of the last weekend during the carnival, on charges of carrying out assaults, carrying a weapon, possession of drugs and other violations.For its part, the newspaper "Daily Mail", noted that the police were informed of a number of other knife attacks during the carnival.The Notting Hill Carnival has been held annually at the end of August since 1966. It is usually organized and mainly attended by people who came from the Caribbean and began settling in West London after the 1950s. In recent years, the carnival is usually visited by about one million guests.

The carnival is usually associated with a sharp rise in the number of crimes and various violations of the law, due to drug use, violence and the use of knives.