3 people stabbed during London's Notting Hill Carnival, police say

Participants take part in the Children's Day Parade, part of the Notting Hill Carnival celebration in west London, Sunday Aug. 25, 2024. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)

LONDON (AP) — Three people were stabbed during the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s biggest street festival, with a 32-year-old woman suffering “life-threatening†injuries, London’s Metropolitan Police Service said.

More than 1 million people are expected to attend the carnival, a celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture that takes place every year on the streets of the Notting Hill neighborhood in west London. Some 7,000 police officers have been assigned to the event, which concludes Monday.

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