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- Hackney Central was closed for over seven hours after a knife attack today (March 1)
- Armed officers are at the scene initially to calls of a firearms incident, but it was later established a man was injured with a knife.
- An air ambulance was spotted in the area and a man has been taken to hospital - where he remains in critical condition
- Read through our blog recap
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