{"id":676903,"date":"2026-09-07T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676903\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:54:09","slug":"man-30s-believed-to-have-been-abducted-and-assaulted-with-iron-bars-was-found-lying-on-roadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676903\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) believed to have been abducted and assaulted with iron bars was found lying on roadside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN IN his 30s has been injured in a serious assault, which ended in him lying on the roadside in Gortin, Co Tyrone on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Northern Ireland believe that he may have been abducted, assaulted by multiple people armed with iron bars and then thrown from a moving car.<\/p>\n<p>The man was found lying on the Culvacullion Road at around 9.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle that was on fire was located by the PSNI on the nearby Rylagh Road a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are keeping an open mind, but one line of enquiry is that this vehicle may have been used by those who carried out this assault,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brutal attack will have left the victim with lasting physical and psychological trauma. There is no justification for this violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PSNI said it is still investigating, and it is appealing to anyone with information, including dashcam or CCTV footage, to contact them using the <a href=\"https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">witness appeal form<\/a>, quoting reference 1547 of 07\/09\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, information can be provided via the non-emergency number 101, or to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crimestoppers-uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 30s has been injured in a serious assault, which ended in him lying on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[62504,15412,9,10,286453,715,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,954,30,7,8,32,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-676903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-abduction","tag-assault","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-county-tyrone","tag-crime","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-psni","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tyrone","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}