Five boys, all believed to be aged 13 and 14, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in north London.
The 52-year-old victim was attacked during an argument as he tried to get into a block of flats where he lived in the Edmonton area on Sunday night.
Police say the victim - who was with a woman - continued into the block but was followed by two of the males and he was then stabbed.
The young males did not know the victim, who died at the scene shortly before 8.40pm.
Detective Chief Inspector Neale Baldock said: "Our initial enquiries have established that there was a supervised party taking place at another address within the block and the group of males were trying to gain access to this.
"The victim and this group were not known to each other - what started as a minor verbal altercation has escalated into a shocking act of violence."
Sky Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "There is a good deal of police activity at the scene, much of it focused on talking to people that live in this block of flats.
"They're trying to establish how what appears to have been an altercation turned into such a drama."
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