{"id":367355,"date":"2025-08-23T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367355\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:47:12","slug":"two-men-bitten-by-dogs-as-police-called-to-incident-at-business-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367355\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men bitten by dogs as police called to ‘incident’ at business park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The men were treated by ambulance on the scene<\/p>\n

13:17, 23 Aug 2025Updated 13:17, 23 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the incident on Leigh Road<\/p>\n

Two men were bitten by dogs at a business park in Wigan<\/a>. Emergency services were called to Leigh Road, Hindley Green, following reports of the incident near the now closed Nippon Electric Glass factory site this morning (August 23).<\/p>\n

Police say that a group of people had made their way onto the site with a dog and were “acting aggressively” towards security personnel and guard dogs.<\/p>\n

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The M.E.N understands that a security guard and member of the group sustained injuries “consistent with dog bites” and they were treated by ambulance at the scene. A section 60C order was put in place, requiring the group to leave premises.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for GMP said: “Officers are responding to an ongoing incident at a business park in Hindley Green in Wigan after a security team reported a group of people with a dog were on site, acting aggressively towards them and their dogs.<\/p>\n

“Two men sustained injuries consistent with dog bites. NWAS attended and treated them on site.<\/p>\n

“At 11:10am today (23\/08\/2025), we issued a section 60C order requiring the group to vacate the premises.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The men were treated by ambulance on the scene 13:17, 23 Aug 2025Updated 13:17, 23 Aug 2025 Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11948,3043,12,16,15,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-367355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-hindley","10":"tag-leigh","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078394276034806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367355","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=367355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}