{"id":299654,"date":"2025-07-28T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:00:16","slug":"waterloo-road-in-sandwell-man-slashed-with-a-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299654\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Road in Sandwell man slashed with a knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  West Midlands Police said a man in his 40s was forced to undergo surgery on his arm after being attacked on Waterloo Road in Smethwick at around 9pm on June 23.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood that a group of men were involved an officers have been carrying out CCTV enquiries in the area.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We&#8217;re keen to hear from anyone who can help our investigation,\u00a0particularly anybody who was passing through the area at the time and has dashcam footage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You can contact us via 101 and quote 20\/290765\/25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police said a man in his 40s was forced to undergo surgery on his arm after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114933348859874163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299654","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=299654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}