{"id":397534,"date":"2025-09-04T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397534\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:08:15","slug":"group-of-men-fight-with-weapons-in-horror-street-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397534\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of men ‘fight with weapons’ in horror street brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police said around seven to eight men became involved in the fight using knives\"PolicePolice said around seven to eight men became involved in the fight using knives(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

A horrific street brawl involving a group of men erupted on a street in east Manchester on Tuesday (September 2).<\/p>\n

Around seven to eight men began fighting, while using weapons, on Abbey Hey Lane in Gorton<\/a> at around 7.45pm. Officers raced to the scene close to Lees<\/a> Street.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police<\/a> said officers believe some members used knives during the brawl. No injuries were reported and no arrests have yet been made.<\/p>\n

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Officers believe the fight was an isolated incident, with no threat to the wider community. Anyone with information or who witnessed the incident is now being urged to contact the force.<\/p>\n

This includes passers-by, or people who may have drove past the area. Police are also appealing for the driver of a Tesla to come forward after they were seen close by.<\/p>\n

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DC Callum Taylor, from GMP’s City of Manchester\u2019s Xcalibre Task Force, said: \u201cI am aware any incident like this will of course cause concern, but we believe the fight was isolated and there was no wider threat to members of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we do have extra patrols in the area and I would urge anyone with concerns to speak to an officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already undertaking several enquiries and we are now asking for anyone who witnessed the incident to please get in touch with any information. If you saw anything \u2013 no matter how insignificant you think it may be \u2013 please get in touch with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can contact the police via 101 or the Live Chat service at gmp.police.uk, quoting log 3170 of 02\/09\/25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alternatively, you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said around seven to eight men became involved in the fight using knivesPolice said around seven to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,23941,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gorton","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146661214908177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397534","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=397534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}