{"id":764138,"date":"2026-09-08T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764138\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:04:09","slug":"young-swans-injured-in-rotherham-suspected-catapult-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764138\/","title":{"rendered":"Young swans injured in Rotherham suspected catapult attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five young swans have been left injured after reportedly being shot at by someone using a catapult and ball bearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attack on the cygnets was believed to have happened between 19:00 BST on Saturday and 14:00 on Sunday on the Chesterfield Canal, around Browns Lock, in Rotherham, according to South Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were taken to a rescue centre for treatment, where two remained in a serious condition and three others were recovering well, a force spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers urged anyone with information about what happened, or who had seen anyone acting suspiciously in the area at the time, to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five young swans have been left injured after reportedly being shot at by someone using a catapult and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-764138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764138","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=764138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}