{"id":1107156,"date":"2026-07-23T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1107156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:35:17","slug":"man-dies-in-river-irwell-in-manchester-city-centre-amid-major-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1107156\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in River Irwell in Manchester city centre amid major emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a massive emergency service response at the scene in Manchester city centre on Wednesday night<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1_IMG_7307jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Emergency services at  the scene on Wednesday night\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Emergency services at  the scene on Wednesday night(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man&#8217;s body was recovered from the River Irwell last night, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There was a large emergency service around the stretch of the river near Spinningfields on Wednesday (July 22) following reports of a man entering the water. Firefighters attended along with police and paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a aria-label=\"Click hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A rescue boat was seen by witnesses having been launched onto the water, which marks the border between Manchester and Salford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesperson confirmed they were called around 10.25pm. Sadly, they said a man&#8217;s body was recovered from the water. His age has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1_IMG_7309jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"A boat was launched onto the water\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A boat was launched onto the water(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The death is being treated as non-suspicious, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A file is expected to be passed to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a massive emergency service response at the scene in Manchester city centre on Wednesday night Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1107157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8086,36877,1290,16,15],"class_list":["post-1107156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city-centre","tag-river-irwell","tag-salford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116970976219053229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}