{"id":954369,"date":"2026-05-12T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:56:16","slug":"man-arrested-over-hotel-explosive-device-in-manchesters-gay-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954369\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over hotel \u2018explosive device\u2019 in Manchester&#8217;s gay village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of making an explosive device after a hotel in the heart of Manchester&#8217;s gay village was evacuated.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx21v5egv07o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a large section of Canal Street<\/a> in the city centre was cordoned off after a suspicious smell came from the hotel room at 10:45 BST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GMP said the hotel guest was arrested and staff and other guests were evacuated. as a &#8220;precautionary measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said in an update that subsequent tests of the  chemical substances found in the hotel room had &#8220;ruled out any explosive risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of making an explosive device after a hotel in the heart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-954369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116560541117835571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954369","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=954369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}