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School hit by double tragedy as boy, 14, killed in sword attack

Source: PA Wire

The 14-year-old boy killed in a sword attack in east London is understood to have attended the same school as a medical student who was fatally stabbed in Nottingham last year.

Bancroft’s, an independent school in east London, was first hit by tragedy last summer when former pupil Grace O’Malley-Kumar died as she tried to protect her friend Barnaby Webber as he was fatally stabbed.

The boy who died in Hainault on Tuesday, who has not yet been identified by police, also attended

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