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Police investigating fatal stabbing in Bristol give statement

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Locals at the scene expressed their shock at another murder in the city.

Sarah Smith, 67, a business owner and councillor, said: "Its right across Bristol. This has been going on for a long time. After the stabbing of Eddie Kinuthia, the church was packed with young people."

"Bristol’s segregated, but now with knife crime it’s almost like it’s become unified. "

"The thing is Bristol is such a small city, we’ve always had the village mindset so there’s not much distance between the postcodes."

Maryam, 35, who works in education and has just moved to the area said:

"It’s a bit saddening to be honest when there’s a stabbing because you just think it’s going to create disharmony."

"It doesn’t make me scared to walk home at night because I think stabbings happen all over the place. "

""But it does make me wary because I’ve not noticed many stabbing, I’ve just noticed that over the last couple of months there have been a lot of stabbings happening around Bristol. So I think what worries me is the trend of the stabbings. "

"It doesn’t worry me that it’s happened in this area, because I think it’s happening around Bristol in general at the moment. "

"And unfortunately, it’s always going to be for poorer socio economic areas that get hit. "

"But I wouldn’t necessarily say the are is unsafe, it’s usually a very community based, lovely area."

Mustafa Abdullah, 39, who is on income support, said: "We live across, and we received information from the police and they said someone’s been stabbed. "

"It’s been six (recent stabbings) it’s really scary and feels like it's happening every day. "

"It can be me next. It’s really scary. It’s getting too much - it’s really bad."

"I feel like it has got less safe to live in Bristol."

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