A TEN-MILE police pursuit from Gravesend along the A2 towards Bexley saw police officers swoop on two men wanted in connection with the stabbing of a 19-year-old man.

Kent Police officers finally detained “a vehicle of interest to police” on the London-bound A2 yesterday evening.

They first clocked the vehicle at around 9pm in Gravesend before it took off along the A2, passing through the Darenth Interchange at Dartford.

Two men, aged 19 and 21 from south London, were arrested at the scene following a stabbing during the Jamaican Independence Day beach party on Margate seafront earlier in the day.

Long delays followed the police operation, which was executed between the Danson Interchange and Falconwood.

News Shopper has been told by motorists caught up in the incident the police helicopter broadcast messages from the sky telling drivers to stay in their cars.

It then told drivers to 'get back in your vehicles,' as this video shows.

Kent Police officers were previously called to a stabbing on the seafront in Margate at 5.35pm, where a 19-year-old man was taken to hospital with a non life-threatening stab wound to his leg.

A Kent Police spokesman said: “Police were called to deal with several minor public disorder incidents and fights after thousands of visitors from London attended an event on Margate seafront."