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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after a teenager stabbed to death outside a primary school in London has been named and pictured for the first time.
The suspect is the third teenager to be held in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Chima Osuji in Chingford, on Easter Monday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene on Monday night despite the efforts of members of the public and the 999 crewsto save him.
Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on suspicion of murder in Chingford on Wednesday.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 14-year-old boy has been arrested."
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Chima was the second teenager to be murdered in the capital in just five days.
Forensic police at the scene in Chingford, north London following the fatal stabbing (Marcin Nowak/LNP)Friends described his as "kind-hearted" with one telling MyLondon: "He was a good friend and very good person. Honestly out of my friends, he was the nicest.
"He would never ask you for anything, the most generous person. He was quiet and kept to himself.
"I was with him yesterday and it happened three hours later after I left. We were just chilling minding our own business. I went out with my dad and got home then got a call saying Chima had got stabbed at the bottom of your road. I could not get past the police tape.
His death followed that of 15-year-old Tiffany Regis last Thursday in a fire in Beckton, east London, that is being treated as arson.
Police at the scene in Chingford, north London (Marcin Nowak/LNP)A 16-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of her murder has been released on bail, pending further inquiries.
Tiffany was the first teenager to be murdered in the capital since 16-year-old Jamaly Samba Baibu was fatally stabbed in Clerkenwell, central London, on December 20 last year.
That period of 107 days was the longest without a teenager being murdered in London for at least 16 years.
The previous longest hiatus in that time was 94 days, from September 27 to December 30 in 2012, which saw the lowest number of teenage murders in the last 16 years (eight).