{"id":137459,"date":"2025-09-14T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137459\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:57:07","slug":"man-arrested-over-metal-theft-at-exploded-house-in-bradford-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137459\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over metal theft at exploded house in Bradford | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing metal from a house just before it exploded in Bradford, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene in Southfield Lane at 10.10pm on Saturday to reports of an explosion, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/west-yorkshire-5863\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Yorkshire Police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>They found the property, which was unoccupied, &#8220;significantly&#8221; damaged, and two adjacent ones also impacted.<\/p>\n<p>A man, woman and boy from a nearby house are in hospital having suffered minor injuries, according to the force.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skynews-bradford-house-explosion_7020326.jpg\"   alt=\"The roof damage to the house\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        The roof damage to the house<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skynews-explosion-bradford_7020331.jpg\"   alt=\"A policeman guards the cordon in Southfield Lane\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        A policeman guards the cordon in Southfield Lane<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, detectives said they had arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of metal theft at the property just before the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is currently being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, the force added.<\/p>\n<p>The empty house has been made safe and a police cordon put in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing metal from a house just before it exploded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-137459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}