A man cried out 'I've have been stabbed, I'm going to die' after a violent assault that claimed his life.

The shocking violence that left a man dead unfolded in Cambridge's Stretten Avenue on Friday evening.

Ambulance crews rushed to the scene after stabbing but were unable to save his life.

Scenes of crime officers from Cambridgeshire police spent most of Saturday at the Arbury location after people in the street woke up to a large police cordon around the scene and a white forensic tent in the middle of the street.

The man - in his 20s - was stabbed just after 10.30pm and this morning police confirmed he had died from his injuries.

A 26-year-old man from the city has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.

One Stretten Avenue resident, who did not want to be named, told the News: “I heard a chap shouting last night about 10.40pm ‘I have been stabbed. I'm going to die’.

“He was almost where the white tent is on the path and there were half a dozen people standing around him.

“I didn’t see him well. I just heard him shout. He had an English accent.

“He said ‘There’s blood coming out of my leg. I am going to die.’ The ambulance was there within minutes. The next minute they were erecting the tent.”

The resident said they had lived in the area for 30 years and never witnessed anything like it.

“It's very shocking. I was just dozing off to sleep when I heard him shouting and I went to the window. There was obviously someone in distress and there were people around him.

“He [the victim] was on the path opposite where the white tent is now. I don’t think he came from the houses. I don’t think he was anything to do with the people around here.”

Andy Elstub, 53, lives on 46 Stretten Avenue: “I was just concerned. I did see the flashing lights last night. It was late at night. There is a family with young children next door so I was concerned for them. Round the corner there is a couple of shops. Not long ago there were a couple of stabbings.”

John Dunn, who lives in Stretten Avenue

John Dunn, 76, who also lives in Stretten Avenue, said: “I heard some shouting last night. It must have been some time after about 11pm.

“It was the sound that caught your attention. I was thinking about going upstairs to look out.

“I was working on the other side of the house. Sometimes people do have rows in the street it didn’t seem wildly out of the ordinary.”