A heavily pregnant woman has been stabbed to death in London. Her child was delivered by paramedics and remains in a critical conditions, police said. The 26-year-old woman, who was eight months pregnant, was found by officers at 3.30am local time at an address in Croydon, South London suffering from stab wounds. A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The UK capital has seen a spate of stabbings in 2019. "This is a horrific incident in which a young mother has lost her life and her child is critically ill,” said Detective Chief Inspector Mick Norman. “Our sympathies go out to her devastated family; they are being supported by specially trained officers following this awful event, and I would ask that they are left alone at this time as they come to terms with the enormity of what has happened,” he added. A police statement said they were keeping an open mind to the motive. The spate of stabbings have led to US president Donald Trump calling London mayor Sadiq Khan a <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/donald-trump-calls-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-a-national-disgrace-1.875167">"disaster"</a> as part of their long-running feud.