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Police have stepped up patrols around London after four people were murdered in the English capital in as many days.

Stabbing attacks claimed the lives of an 18-year-old in Wandsworth on Friday, a man in his 30s in Tower Hamlets on Saturday and a man in his 40s in Stratford yesterday morning. A 19-year-old was also shot dead in Plumstead on Friday.

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