{"id":400438,"date":"2025-09-05T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400438\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:43:16","slug":"attempted-murder-arrests-as-man-seriously-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400438\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted murder arrests as man seriously hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/57c96af0-8a75-11f0-8ba8-9d1af6a803b3.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC A police van on a closed road. A police officer stands outside it.\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton Road has been closed in both directions <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man has been seriously injured in an attack, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The victim was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and a cordon remains in place at Stapleton Road in Easton, Bristol. Officers were called to the incident at about 14:40 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 19-year-old man, who was taken to hospital with minor injuries, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Officers also arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ch Insp Serena Serjeant said: &#8220;This was a shocking attack and we are carrying out urgent enquiries to understand the full circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;As a result, there&#8217;s a heavy police presence in the area at the moment and a cordon is in place in Stapleton Road to allow this work to take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We would urge anyone who has any information to please report it to us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Traffic monitoring site Inrix reports that Stapleton Road is closed in both directions,  with queueing traffic due to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Stapleton Road has been closed in both directions Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","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\/115152696452053423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400438","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=400438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}