{"id":652707,"date":"2026-06-22T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:25:13","slug":"man-charged-with-terrorism-linked-attempted-murders-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652707\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with terrorism-linked attempted murders in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attacks began near Broomhouse Mosque in the west of Edinburgh at about 20:30 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two 22-year-old men, understood to have recently left Asr prayer, were stabbed multiple times at Sighthill Park and taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A taxi was then vandalised at a Shell garage on Telford Road, about five miles away, at 21:15, leaving it with broken windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An image from the scene appeared to show a hatchet with a yellow and black handle lying in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV footage showing a man standing beside a black vehicle with its window smashed at a BP garage on Ferry Road was recorded at 21:28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The video shows the man entering the kiosk before overturning shelves and leaving products scattered across the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attacks began near Broomhouse Mosque in the west of Edinburgh at about 20:30 on Friday. Two 22-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652707","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\/652707","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=652707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}