{"id":678077,"date":"2026-01-06T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:49:11","slug":"birmingham-emergency-huge-bomb-cordon-and-evacuation-near-major-train-line-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678077\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham emergency: Huge bomb cordon and evacuation near major train line | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We were called to Duddeston Mill Trading Estate, on Duddeston Mill Road, Washwood Heath, shortly before 9.45am today (Tuesday) following the discovery of an old mortar device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident is self-contained within the site, and people have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An EOD bomb disposal team are attending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 100 metres exclusion zone is in operation, which does impact the railway line at Duddeston, so rail services will be impacted while this is brought to a safe conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We were called to Duddeston Mill Trading Estate, on Duddeston Mill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,6962,393,4884,529,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-emergency-news","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849184125024855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678077","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=678077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}