{"id":739028,"date":"2026-08-15T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:12:11","slug":"man-seriously-hurt-in-suspected-birmingham-city-centre-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739028\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously hurt in suspected Birmingham city centre assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been taken to hospital after being found with serious injuries in Birmingham city centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A police cordon was put in place after the man was found in Navigation Street just before 06:40 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s understood the man, aged in his 50s, had been assaulted,&#8221; said a West Midlands Police spokesman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers are carrying out inquiries, including reviewing CCTV, and said they want to establish the full circumstances and identify who was involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force has urged anyone with any further information to get in touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken to hospital after being found with serious injuries in Birmingham city centre. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739028","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\/739028","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=739028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}