{"id":24691,"date":"2017-11-03T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24691"},"modified":"2017-11-03T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:00:27","slug":"gang-armed-weapons-target-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/gang-armed-weapons-target-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang Armed With Weapons Target Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of a chaos outside a restaurant on Witton Lodge Road, Perry Common on Thursday 2nd November called Police to investigate; two individuals were injured as a gang of youth armed with weapons caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to a shop in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands police said a group of youth &#8220;armed with weapons&#8221; instigated an intentional attack as local residents accounted seeing up to &#8217;30 men with machetes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous resident claimed \u201cThere was a huge fight involving up to 30 men armed with weapons including machetes. You can still see one large knife on the bonnet of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have yet been made but a West Midlands Police Spokesman stated the officers have commenced a &#8216;search for those involved&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Witton Lodge Road was closed between Kingfisher Road and the exit opposite Perry Common this morning to allow for further searches to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of a chaos outside a restaurant on Witton Lodge Road, Perry Common on Thursday 2nd November called Police to investigate; two individuals were injured as a gang of youth armed with weapons caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to a shop in Birmingham. West Midlands police said a group of youth &#8220;armed with weapons&#8221; instigated an intentional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[475],"class_list":["post-24691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-witton-lodge-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}