{"id":317279,"date":"2025-08-04T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317279\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:53:23","slug":"teenager-killed-in-targeted-car-park-stabbing-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317279\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager killed in ‘targeted’ car park stabbing named"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three people have been arrested so far, including one at Manchester Airport\"PolicePolice at the scene on Sunday(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old man who was stabbed to death in a Bury<\/a> car park has been named.<\/p>\n

The teenager was found with multiple stab wounds in the car park of the Powerleague football complex<\/a>, next to Bury College, on Market Street<\/a> last Friday night (August 1).<\/p>\n

He tragically died from his injuries. Officers arrested three 19-year-old men on suspicion of murder, including one at Manchester Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The victim has since been named as Mohammed Isa Afzal. Greater Manchester Police<\/a> has described the incident as a ‘targeted attack’.<\/p>\n

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Two of the suspects were arrested on Saturday night, one in Bury and one in Bolton<\/a>. The third was arrested at Manchester Airport in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

All three remain in police custody as of this afternoon (Monday), on warrants of further detention.<\/p>\n

\"ForensicsForensics in attendance on Saturday(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Sunday, Detective Chief Inspector John Charlton said: “Even though we have three people in custody this is still a live investigation and that will continue today and into next week.<\/p>\n

“This was a violent and tragic incident that was witnessed by a lot of people. This incident will have shocked the community and distressed anyone who witnessed it, but we believe this was a targeted attack with no wider threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur officers will be in the area today and over the next few days as we try to establish what happened in the lead-up to this awful incident. We also have specialist officers supporting the family at this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Forensic officers were seen gathering evidence from the Powerleague car park and a second scene on Valley Mill Lane, near the Roch Valley Greenway, over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\"AA forensic tent in place on Valley Mill Lane, linked to the Bury murder investigation(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n

Powerleague remained closed throughout the weekend, but reopened this morning (Monday).<\/p>\n

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Anyone with information or relevant footage from the incident is asked to call GMP on 101 or online, quoting log number 3354 of August 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been arrested so far, including one at Manchester AirportPolice at the scene on Sunday(Image: Kenny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,188,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970834554280186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317279","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=317279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}