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<\/p>\nArmed police were called shortly after 3pm on Friday<\/p>\n
Tom Burnett Content Editor<\/p>\n
20:41, 12 Jun 2026Updated 20:50, 12 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
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Police at the scene in Brierfield(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed in the neck during an incident in a Lancashire village.<\/p>\n
Armed police were called to Wood Street, Brierfield, shortly after 3pm today (Friday, June 12).<\/p>\n
A cordon was put in place, with photos showing a large police presence in the area, LancsLive reports.<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: “We were called at 3.06pm today to Wood Street, Brierfield, to a report of stabbing.<\/p>\n “It was reported that a 17-year-old girl had been assaulted and suffered a stab injury to her neck.<\/p>\n “Officers, some of them armed, attended and a 30-year-old man was arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n “The girl was taken to hospital for treatment to a stab wound in the back of her neck.<\/p>\n Get MEN Premium now for just \u00a31 HERE<\/a> \u2013 or get involved in our WhatsApp group by clicking HERE<\/a><\/p>\n “We know that this will cause alarm in the local community and extra patrols will be in the area this evening to provide reassurance.<\/p>\n “Anyone who witnessed the stabbing, or has CCTV\/doorbell footage from the area, or has information, please contact 101 \u2013 quoting log 0836 of 12th June.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police were called shortly after 3pm on Friday Tom Burnett Content Editor 20:41, 12 Jun 2026Updated 20:50,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,4584,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-lancashire","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636022","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=636022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}