A 16-year-old from Mitcham and a 17-year-old from Streatham are among those charged with the murder of a teenager in Victoria Underground station last week.

Police today charged 12 male youths with the murder of Sofyen Belamouadden, 15, who was fatally stabbed in front of horrified commuters at the booking office of the District and Circle line, at about 5.20pm on Thursday.

Sofyen was rushed to a central London hospital but he was pronounced dead at 6.15pm.

A postmortem examination at Westminster Mortuary on Saturday gave the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.

Ten other youths aged 16 and 17, from south London, have also been charged with murder, including youths from Brixton and Stockwell.

They are all due to appear at West London youth court later today.