{"id":171109,"date":"2025-06-09T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171109\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:08:10","slug":"two-men-suffer-burns-after-substance-sprayed-inside-city-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171109\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men suffer burns after &#8220;substance&#8221; sprayed inside city house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were injured with two taken to hospital with burns in Acocks Green<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Oxford-Road-Acocks-GreenJPG.jpg\" alt=\"A general view of Oxford Road, Acocks Green\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A general view of Oxford Road, Acocks Green(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two men suffered burns and two others injured after an unknown substance was sprayed inside a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a>, fire and paramedics were called to an address on Oxford Road in Acocks Green around 10.45am on Monday (June 9) following reports of an attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two males suffered burns injuries and were taken to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/angry-man-who-chased-punched-31821191\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More: Angry man who chased and punched teenagers playing &#8216;knock door run&#8217; is jailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two other patients were assessed at the scene by paramedics and discharged after receiving self-care advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assault and is currently in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest BirminghamLive news direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We were called to a property in Oxford Road, Acocks Green, at around 10.45am today after reports of people being sprayed with a substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Two men were taken to hospital with burn injuries which are now being assessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and is currently in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object] Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong> <\/a><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokeswoman from WMAS said: &#8220;We were called at 11.34am to an incident at a private address on Oxford Road, Acocks Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Two ambulances and three paramedic officers attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Upon arrival we found four patients &#8211; the first, a man who had sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He received treatment from ambulance staff at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The second, a man who was assessed and had sustained injuries not believed to be serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Both were conveyed to hospital for further treatment,&#8221; the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The statement added: &#8220;The third and fourth were assessed and had sustained injuries not believed to be serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;They received self care advice from ambulance staff before being discharged at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three fire crews attended the incident and left the matter in the care of the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">WMP added: &#8220;We have officers in the area and our enquiries are continuing. Anyone with information can contact us via 101 and quote log 1556 of 9\/6\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were injured with two taken to hospital with burns in Acocks GreenA general view of Oxford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[45883,855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-acocks-green","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655219137184309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171109","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=171109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}