A woman has been stabbed to death with a butcher's knife and another woman has been injured on a busy shopping street in south London.
A third woman has been arrested in connection with the attacks, police said.
Police were called to the area at around 8.30am, along with London Ambulance Service. The first victim, who was found with stab wounds, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.41am.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "We were called to Broadway in Bexleyheath following reports of an assault. Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and discovered a woman suffering from a stab wound. She was pronounced dead at about 08:41. A second female was discovered with a minor knife injury to her hand."
A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said: "We were called just after 8.30am to reports of a stabbing on the Broadway, Bexleyheath.
"We sent an ambulance crew and an officer to the scene. Sadly one patient, a woman, was dead at the scene. A second patient was treated at the scene for a minor hand injury. She did not require hospital treatment."
Officers said it was too early to determine a motive for the killing.
An employee at The Rose pub in Broadway, Bexleyheath, said a knife had been taken from the British Meat Market before the killing.
The woman, who did not give her name, told PA: "I didn't see what happened but I think one of the girls stole a knife from the butcher's. A policeman told my boss that's what happened. We were really shocked. On the whole we don't get that sort of thing around here. It isn't a bad place."