{"id":19900,"date":"2013-01-11T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/man-held-over-fatal-double-stabbing-201449654.html"},"modified":"2013-01-11T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T20:14:49","slug":"man-held-over-fatal-double-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/man-held-over-fatal-double-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man held over fatal double stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A man has been arrested after two men were stabbed to death in a city centre, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who are believed to be in their 40s, were stabbed in Birmingham city centre just before 6pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said one victim is understood to have been stabbed outside a Sainsbury&#8217;s store on Martineau Place while the second man was found slumped near Boots in Union Street.<\/p>\n<p>Both had suffered fatal stab wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A man was arrested in New Street near the Odeon Cinema shortly after the stabbings.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector David Keen said: &#8220;Two men have suffered fatal injuries &#8211; these have been inflicted in the heart of the city at a busy time when workers and shoppers would be heading home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are potentially hundreds of witnesses, either people who saw the stabbings or the offender leaving the scene, and I&#8217;d urge people to get in touch immediately &#8211; they could have vital information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A large police presence was quickly on the scene and a man was arrested swiftly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An area of Union Street has been cordoned off while officers carry out forensic investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information is asked to call police on the 101 number.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after two men were stabbed to death in a city centre, police have said.<br \/>\nThe men, who are believed to be in their 40s, were stabbed in Birmingham city centre just before 6pm on Friday.<br \/>\nWest Midlands Police said one victim is und&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}