A WOMAN found with fatal stab wounds inside a blazing house has become the latest victim of Broken Britain's knife crime epidemic - which has seen an incredible seven murders in just 24 hours.

A man was arrested today on suspicion of murder after firefighters were called to a detached property in the village of Tarleton, LANCASHIRE, in the early hours of this morning.

They broke down the door to find the dead woman inside, and rescued a 57-year-old man, who was rushed to hospital.

Probe ... scene in Crosby, Liverpool, where woman was stabbed

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He is now under arrest on suspicion of murder.

London was the epicentre of the *lo**shed - four men were stabbed to death in separate incidents.
 

A 19-year-old died from his injuries after being knifed in a confrontation at a bedsit in EDMONTON, north London.

Two people have been arrested.

The victim, who has not been named, is the 20th teenager to die violently in the capital this year.

In TOTTENHAM, north London, a murder inquiry was launched after a man was found stabbed to death at the rear of a disused pub in Tottenham High Road.

The victim, thought to be in his 40s, was suffering from head injuries and slash wounds. He died at the scene.

Officers were alerted when a member of the public attended Tottenham police station at about 4am yesterday.

Two men and a woman were arrested nearby and have been taken to police stations in north London.

Another young Asian man aged 21, named locally as Adnan Patel, was fatally stabbed in Downsell Road, LEYTON, east London, and died on the pavement at 5.30pm.

He was knifed after a road rage incident, following a dispute with men in a white van, it has been reported.

He than reportedly fled the scene in his car before losing control and crashing a few streets away.

Four people have been arrested after officers were called to reports of a man with a stab wound.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

A police spokesman said the victim, found in a car, was thought to have suffered one stab wound to the chest.

A third murder took place in St David's Court, WALTHAMSTOW, east London, at 8.30pm where the young Asian victim was stabbed and left to die on the street.

And later, it emerged a fifth man was the victim of a knife attack in London during the last 24 hours.

The man, in his late 20s, was found by police at an address in WILLESDEN, north west London, with stab wounds to the back and stomach.

Police said the man was taken to a west London hospital where he is in a life-threatening condition.

A 24-year-old woman was arrested at the scene, shortly after the attack at about 4.20am today.

In LIVERPOOL the body of a woman in her 40s was found with multiple stab wounds in a flat in Sefton after reports of a domestic argument. A 49-year-old man was arrested shortly afterwards.

In WEST BROMWICH, a 20-year-old man was knifed at 11pm after being stabbed five times in the stomach at his home. A young man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of his murder.

Meanwhile, in NOTTINGHAM, it emerged that a 25-year-old man was repeatedly stabbed outside a house at 3pm on Wednesday in Bulwell after an argument with another man.

Mark Beard was discovered with several stab wounds outside the house.

Nottinghamshire Police launched a murder inquiry and have arrested a Nottingham man, who is also 25.