{"id":518350,"date":"2026-04-07T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:50:14","slug":"cordon-in-place-after-three-injured-in-violent-disturbance-involving-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518350\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordon in place after three injured in violent ‘disturbance involving weapons’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detectives are ‘working at pace’ to find those involved in the violence\"The<\/p>\n

The area was cordoned off following the violence(Image: ASP)<\/p>\n

A street was cordoned off by police after three people were injured in a violent disturbance which is thought to have involved weapons in Oldham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officers from Greater Manchester Police<\/a> taped off an area on Copster Hill Road after the incident erupted shortly before 3pm on Tuesday (April 7). There were reports of a disturbance involving a group of individuals which became violent.<\/p>\n

Three men, aged 19, 23 and 24, were taken to hospital from the scene. Their injuries are not deemed to be life-threatening. Detectives are investigating the potential use of weapons amid the brawl.<\/p>\n

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Pictures from the scene showed police and paramedics in attendance on Tuesday afternoon with tape stretching over the pavement. Blood was also seen splattered on the ground. Anyone with information or CCTV footage is being urged to contact Greater Manchester Police.<\/p>\n

\"Detectives<\/p>\n

Detectives are ‘working at pace’ to find those involved in the violence(Image: ASP)<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Kelly Paterson from GMP’s Oldham CID said: \u201cWe appreciate the concern an incident of this nature would cause the local community and we\u2019re like to reassure them there is believed to be no wider threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a scene in place as our forensic investigators establish the full circumstances of the incident however, we are working at pace to identify those involved.<\/p>\n

\"Paramedics<\/p>\n

Paramedics at the scene (Image: ASP)<\/p>\n

\u201cViolence has no place on our streets, and our officers will be out in the local area to support communities. If you have any information or footage of the incident, please contact Oldham CID on 0161 856 8906, quoting log 1895 of 07.04.2026.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives are ‘working at pace’ to find those involved in the violence The area was cordoned off following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,2438,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518350","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-oldham","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518350","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=518350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}