Kelyan Bokassa, 14, was stabbed to death in front of horrified passengers on the 472 bus headed toward Abbey Wood in London with his mum praising the teen as a "very caring" boy

Tributes have been paid to a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death on a bus in what his former south London school described as “senseless violence”. The teenager, named locally as Kelyan, was attacked on the Route 472 double-decker on Woolwich Church Road near the junction with the A205 South Circular Road at 2.

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