{"id":540031,"date":"2026-04-19T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:52:12","slug":"woman-found-dead-after-armed-police-descend-on-manchester-tower-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540031\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead after armed police descend on Manchester tower block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services descended onto Broadmoss Drive<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A cordon was placed around Somerton Court\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_Cordon-placed-around-Somerton-Court-Blackley-jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"A cordon was placed around Somerton Court\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A cordon was placed around Somerton Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Armed police were called to a block of flats after a woman was found dead. Emergency services flooded Broadmoss Drive, <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/blackley\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Blackley<\/a>, on Sunday evening (April 19).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> has said there is no wider risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Multiple officers, detectives, forensics, and ambulance staff were spotted in the area today where a cordon was placed at the entrance of Somerton Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police cars were stationed around the flats, with officers standing outside keeping watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armed police on Broadmoss Drive\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_Armed-police-on-Broadmoss-Drive-Blackley-jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Armed police on Broadmoss Drive\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Armed police on Broadmoss Drive<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One resident who lives in Somerton Court described to the M.E.N the moment they heard armed police enter the tower block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Earlier today at 18:26 I heard a big bang and a door had been kicked in,&#8221; they said. &#8220;When we heard the noise, we went to look and then went back up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I saw about four ambulances go in as well as armed police and thought, what&#8217;s going on?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A scene remains in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services descended onto Broadmoss Drive A cordon was placed around Somerton Court Armed police were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9241,59,57,58,2847,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-blackley","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greater-manchester-police","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540031","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=540031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}