{"id":826573,"date":"2026-07-26T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:03:10","slug":"woman-26-critically-injured-in-downtown-montreal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826573\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 26, critically injured in downtown Montreal attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old woman was left fighting for her life Saturday afternoon in downtown Montreal after being attacked with what the police said may have been a sharp object.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at about 4:45 p.m. to De Bleury St., near De la Concorde St., following a report a woman had been injured, according to Johany Charland, a Montreal police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The officers found the woman suffering from an injury to her upper body. She was then taken to hospital, where her condition was considered life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information, a suspect attacked the woman for reasons that remained unclear, the police said. The suspect fled before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made, and the investigation was continuing, Charland said.<\/p>\n<p>The police established a perimeter to protect evidence at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old woman was left fighting for her life Saturday afternoon in downtown Montreal after being attacked with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222407,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-826573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-law","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}