The mother of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London tearfully spoke of how the police told her what she was “fearing the most”. Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa died shortly after being attacked on a 472 double-decker bus on Woolwich Church Street at 2.30pm on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old schoolboy has been stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police said. The teenager was treated at the scene in Woolwich but died soon after medics arrived, the force said.

Police are on the hunt for a killer after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death on a London bus in what police have described as a “horrendous” crime.

A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a bus in London this afternoon with emergency services scrambled to the scene and the knifeman still on the run