Talented hockey player Grace Kumar, 19, has been named in reports as one of the victims, along with fellow student Barnaby Webber, also 19
Hours after the attacks, at around 12.30pm on Tuesday, armed police cut off Ilkeston Road - where the students were stabbed, said Sky correspondent Becky Johnson.
Chief Constable Kate Meynell said a number of searches had been carried out across the city but no further arrests. He said he heard"awful, blood-curdling screams" and there was a"black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people"."I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing - four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road," the witness said.
"I'd say it all happened within five or six minutes. The attacker then just walked off up Ilkeston Road towards town, as calm as anything."
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