{"id":514959,"date":"2026-04-05T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:18:12","slug":"arrests-made-after-man-stabbed-in-southend-disturbance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514959\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests made after man stabbed in Southend disturbance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man suffered &#8220;potentially life-changing&#8221; injuries after being hit by a vehicle and stabbed during a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; in a city, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police said it was called to Chichester Road in Southend-on-Sea at about 02:00 BST on Sunday after reports of a fight involving two groups of people, some believed to be carrying knives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force believes the incident may have been linked to an earlier disturbance in London Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An armed response unit sent to the scene found a man with stab wounds. Officers said further investigations indicated a vehicle had hit him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suffered &#8220;potentially life-changing&#8221; injuries after being hit by a vehicle and stabbed during a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514959","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=514959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}