A third teenager has been arrested following the stabbing of five boys at a Halloween party that saw 70 'uninvited' revellers show up after the details were shared on Snapchat.
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The 16-year-old boy was arrested overnight on Monday on suspicion of attempted murder following the stabbings at an address in Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh on Saturday, October 31, at around 10.30pm.
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The teenager, from Bristol, joins a 16-year-old and 17-year-old - both from Southampton - who were also arrested on suspicion of murder.
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All three remain in custody at this time.
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Officers at the scene found the teenagers had scaled the fence of the £800,000 four-bedroom property on Park Road, before seriously assaulting the victims, three who are aged 16 and two aged 17, there and in surrounding streets.
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Four of the five victims sustained serious injuries but have been discharged from hospital.
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The fifth, who is aged 17, remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition, Hampshire & Isle of Wright Constabulary said on Tuesday.
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The attack came after a 17-year-old girl - who lives at the property with her parents and sister - invited her closest friends for a supervised party that saw 100 people turn up after a different Halloween bash nearby was shut down earlier in the evening.
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Her parents were at the address but were unable to stop the large numbers of youngsters arriving.
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A third teenager has been arrested after five teenage boys suffered serious injuries following a stabbing at a Halloween party (Pictured: Police and forensics teams in and around the scene on Park Road in Chandler's Ford)
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Hampshire & Isle of Wright Constabulary have confirmed its investigation remains ongoing, with officers from the force 'continuing to review footage'
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At some point after 10pm a group of teenagers climbed a wooden fence and gained access to the party despite not appearing to know anyone there.
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A fight then broke out and the five boys were rushed to hospital.
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The stab victims are believed to be friends with the party's host as all had attended Thornden School in Chandler's Ford.
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They had completed their GCSE exams last year and had moved to various colleges including Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh.
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Detailing the events of the evening, one local resident said: 'A friend of mine's son went to the party.
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At some point, a group of teenagers scaled the fence and jumped into the back yard.
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'They were uninvited and didn't seem to know anyone.
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A fight broke out between some of the boys who had been at the party and the group who had gatecrashed.
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It got nasty quickly as the group who had jumped over the fence pulled out knives.
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They later fled the house.
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One of the boys was stabbed in the shoulder, two had serious slash wounds to their stomach and torso while another had a nasty stab wound to his arm.
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Four of the five victims sustained serious injuries but have been discharged from hospital, while the fifth victim remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition
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There'd been another party in Romsey earlier in the evening which had been shut down.
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Some of those we think had gone over to this party afterwards.'
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A lady who lives close to the house where the party took place described the moment the stabbing happened.
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She said: 'I could hear a lot of noise and so I looked out from an upstairs window and I could see a lot of teenagers further up the road outside a neighbour's house.
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There must have been more than 80 of them at the party and some had spilled out onto the street.
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They were laughing and chatting but were generally well behaved, there was no anti-social behaviour going on.
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But it changed suddenly when I could hear screams from a few of the girls.
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That was when the fight broke out and the boys were stabbed.'
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She continued: 'There was a lot of screaming and an eerie silence immediately afterwards.
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I heard a male voice say to another 'it's a knife attack.'
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The air ambulance landed in the recreation ground nearby.
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I saw one of the boys brought out of the house on a stretcher.
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He looked in a terrible way.
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The attack came after 100 people turned up at the property after a different Halloween bash nearby was shut down earlier in the evening
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The medics looked as though they were giving him gas and air and a blood transfusion.
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They must have worked on him on the pavement outside the house for about half an hour to 40-minutes before he was rushed away in an ambulance.
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Two other boys were brought out on stretchers.
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…and 14 more, not listed.
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