{"id":299829,"date":"2025-07-29T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299829\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:33:13","slug":"2-men-stabbed-to-death-near-tower-bridge-in-central-london-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299829\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men stabbed to death near Tower Bridge in central London, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two men were stabbed to death at a business in central London on Monday near Tower Bridge, British police said, a major tourist destination and an area where violent crime is rare.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police received reports of multiple assaults at the premises in a narrow road close to the bridge in the London borough of Southwark, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 58-year-old man died at the scene and a 27-year-old man died at hospital, and a murder investigation has been launched, police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A third victim, a man in his 30s, remained in hospital with non-lethal injuries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Another man, also in his 30s, was detained in connection with the incident and is in a life-threatening condition in hospital, police added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur investigation is in the early stages and we are working hard to understand the full circumstances of this shocking incident,\u201d Detective Chief Superintendent Emma Bond said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were stabbed to death at a business in central London on Monday near Tower Bridge, British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,44985,22228,110891,393,4884,1867,257,110890,25828,110889,13466,29048,16,15,22147],"class_list":{"0":"post-299829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-police","10":"tag-central-london","11":"tag-detective-chief-superintendent-emma-bond","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-hospital","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-murder-investigation","17":"tag-southwark","18":"tag-stabbed-to-death","19":"tag-terrorism","20":"tag-tower-bridge","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-violent-crime"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114933714697982540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299829","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=299829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}