Police are investigating <\/a>after a man was stabbed outside\nHandsworth Cycles in Grove Lane, Handsworth just after 10am today (Wednesday 9\nJanuary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cA 22-year-old man was left with a\nnon-life threatening injury to the side of his face and was taken to hospital,\nwhere he remains this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt around the same time, a BMW\ncrashed into another shop on the road and officers are working to establish if\nthe two incidents are linked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A spokesman from West Midlands\nAmbulance Service said: \u201cWe were called at 10.24am by West Midlands Police to\nreports of an assault on Grove Lane, Handsworth. One ambulance attended. We\ntreated one patient, a man, for his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFollowing treatment at the scene,\nhe was taken on blue lights and sirens to hospital for further assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one else was reported to have\nbeen hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police spokeswoman added:\n\u201cEnquiries continue and anyone with information is asked to contact police via\nLive Chat at west-midlands.police.uk between 8am to midnight, call 101 anytime\nor contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, quoting crime reference\n20BW\/7035M\/19.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man was stabbed, and a BMW crashed into a shop front in Handsworth on Wednesday 9 January around 10am. Emergency services were called after a 22-year-old victim was knifed in the face outside Handsworth Cycles on Grove Lane and around the same time a BMW crashed into a food shop opposite the Shri Guru […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28023","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=28023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}