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<\/p>\nIt was reported that a man was “stabbed in the chest” during an incident in the Rodgers Quay area of Carrickfergus on Wednesday, May 27<\/p>\n
13:00, 30 May 2026Updated 13:05, 30 May 2026<\/p>\n
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after another man was stabbed in Carrickfergus.<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old man was arrested in the Newtownabbery area on Saturday, May 30, on suspicion of a number of offences including attempted murder, following a stabbing on Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n
It was reported that a man was “stabbed in the chest” during an incident in the Rodgers Quay area of Carrickfergus before being taken to hospital, with a suspect allegedly fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Lenaghan said: \u201cA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon, following a search in the Newtownabbey area on Saturday, 30th May.<\/p>\n
He has been taken into custody and will be interviewed in due course.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur enquiries are continuing into this incident and I would urge anyone who can assist us with our enquiries to contact detectives on 101, quoting reference number 1557 27\/05\/26.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlternatively, you can submit a report online using the non-emergency reporting form at http:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport\/<\/a> or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org.uk<\/a> \u201d<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was reported that a man was “stabbed in the chest” during an incident in the Rodgers Quay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4330,4331,61,2864,5,6],"class_list":["post-52424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-carrickfergus","tag-co-antrim","tag-crime","tag-psni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116664332627244112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}