{"id":502717,"date":"2025-10-15T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:46:16","slug":"leicester-stabbing-live-horror-as-armed-police-swarm-city-centre-in-m-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502717\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester stabbing Live: Horror as armed police swarm city centre in m | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive police cordon has been thrown up in Leicester city centre tonight following shocking reports of a brutal stabbing incident that saw dozens of officers and sniffer dogs swarm the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified residents reported hearing chilling shouts of &#8220;armed police&#8221; ringing out as the horrifying events unfolded just hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>Leicestershire Police have yet to confirm the exact circumstances of the incident, which locals claim was a vicious knife attack.<\/p>\n<p>The streets around Alexander Street in the city centre are now completely sealed off by the huge police perimeter, which was dramatically extended a few hours after the reported stabbing, at around 10.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a live incident, follow our liveblog below for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive police cordon has been thrown up in Leicester city centre tonight following shocking reports of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[45713,31367,42237,12151,164742,12,529,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-502717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-armed-police","10":"tag-city-centre","11":"tag-knife-attack","12":"tag-knife-crime","13":"tag-leicester-stabbing","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115380852117039320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502717","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=502717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}