{"id":624423,"date":"2025-12-10T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:05:20","slug":"woman-found-dead-in-greater-manchester-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624423\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead in Greater Manchester canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were called to Bridgewater Canal in Altrincham at around 8.30am<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_IMG_1068jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police and divers at the scene in Altrincham\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police and divers at the scene in Altrincham(Image: Altrincham Today)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The body of a woman has been found in the Bridgewater Canal in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/altrincham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Altrincham<\/a>. Police were called to Atlantic Street<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/live-huge-emergency-response-near-33032373\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\"> following the tragic discovery<\/a> on Wednesday morning (December 10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services were spotted by the canal near Plantin Road and Atlantic Street in Broadheath. A part of the canal path was closed off by police on Oldfield Road, with reports and photos showing a specialist police team carrying out a search in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed the body of a woman was found in the water. Officers are working to find out her identity to contact and support her loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement, the force said: &#8220;Shortly before 8.30am on Wednesday 10 December 2025, officers were called to Atlantic Street, Altrincham to reports of a body in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Emergency services attended and sadly the body of a female has been recovered from the water. Officers are currently working to establish her identity to inform and support her loved ones, and the circumstances surrounding her death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were called to Bridgewater Canal in Altrincham at around 8.30amPolice and divers at the scene in Altrincham(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[8831,748,393,4884,187,2465,1289,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-624423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-altrincham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greater-manchester-police","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-trafford","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115695895325359838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624423","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=624423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}