A teenager was stabbed to death in broad daylight in a shop as thousands of bargain hunters thronged one of Britain’s busiest shopping streets, yesterday.

The 18-year-old from south London was killed in the Foot Locker store on Oxford Street, London, as “hundreds of thousands” of people shopped nearby on the opening day of the post-Christmas sales, the Metropolitan Police said.

Police said they were called at around 1.45 p.m. to reports of a stabbing.

London Air Ambulance and London Ambulance Service also attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said it was too early to establish what the motive for the stabbing was.

Seven arrests were made and a crime scene was set up which runs from Duke Street to New Bond Street, near Bond Street underground station. A forensics team erected a white tent in front of Foot Locker, overlooked by Christmas lights.

Confused Boxing Day bargain hunters and tourists were coming up to the police cordon to take pictures and ask officers what had happened.