{"id":693653,"date":"2026-01-13T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693653\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:14:12","slug":"armed-police-rush-to-leafy-west-london-street-following-reports-of-man-in-possession-of-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693653\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police rush to leafy west London street following reports of man ‘in possession of knives’"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Jan 2026, 14:44 Updated: 3h ago <\/p>\n

Residents have reportedly been evacuated from the surrounding streets<\/p>\n

13 Jan 2026, 14:44 | Updated: 3h ago <\/p>\n

\"Armed<\/p>\n

Armed police gather on Venetia road in South Ealing.<\/p>\n

Picture:
\nX @jcsinclair_<\/p>\n

Residents were evacuated from their homes as police rushed to calls of an armed man inside a property on a leafy west London street.<\/p>\n

At 9:50am specialist police officers and negotiators were called to Venetia Road, Ealing, after reports of a man with an object he claimed to be a grenade.<\/p>\n

Witness Jack saw a negotiator enter the building on the leafy terraced road.<\/p>\n

After engaging with a man in his 60s, the Met Police said they believed he was “in possession of knives”.<\/p>\n

The ‘grenade’ device was not viable but as a precaution Venetia Road has been evacuated.<\/p>\n

The London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were also in attendance.<\/p>\n

No injuries have been reported at this time. <\/p>\n

The incident is not being treated as terror-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13 Jan 2026, 14:44 Updated: 3h ago Residents have reportedly been evacuated from the surrounding streets 13 Jan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115889154682068066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693653","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=693653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}