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Tributes paid to ‘popular, fun loving and good friends’
Tributes have been paid to Max Dixon and Mason Rise after they were both fatally stabbed in Knowle West on Saturday night.
It comes as a fifth person has been arrested on suspicion of murder with more than 100 officers currently involved in the investigation.
Max, 16, and Mason, 15, both died in hospital after the attack on Ilminster Avenue which has left Bristol in mourning.
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Their headteacher at Oasis Academy John Williams in Hengrove, Victoria Boomer-Clark, said that the boys were “popular, fun loving and good friends”.
Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol, Boomer-Clark said that she has been “absolutely humbled and blown away” by her pupils’ responses to the tragedy.
“They have been respectful, thoughtful and supporting one another.”
Main photos: Avon & Somerset police
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