{"id":388058,"date":"2026-01-24T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:52:08","slug":"man-injured-and-six-arrested-after-shooting-in-manchester-city-centre-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388058\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured and six arrested after shooting in Manchester city centre | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been taken to hospital and six men were arrested after a shooting in Manchester city centre, police say.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to an address in Richmond Street around 5am on Saturday following reports of a disturbance.<\/p>\n

After arriving at the location, they found a man with a leg injury “consistent with a gunshot wound”, according to Greater Manchester Police.<\/p>\n

The force said he was taken to hospital but his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n

A firearm was also recovered at an address in Richmond Street, the force added.<\/p>\n

Six men aged between 23 and 26 years have been arrested on suspicion of affray and firearms offences.<\/p>\n

They remain in police custody for questioning and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n

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Superintendent Stephen Wiggins said: “This will undoubtedly be a concerning incident to be waking up to, not just for those who live and work in the city centre, but for the whole of Greater Manchester.”<\/p>\n

“I would like to reassure the community that we believe this is a targeted incident, and there is no wider threat to the general public,” he added.<\/p>\n

Police are appealing for witnesses or people with any information about the incident to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken to hospital and six men were arrested after a shooting in Manchester city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388058","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=388058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}