{"id":768991,"date":"2026-09-13T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:26:11","slug":"manchester-city-centre-incident-recap-as-teenager-left-with-potentially-life-changing-injuries-after-substance-thrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768991\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester city centre incident RECAP as teenager left with &#8216;potentially life-changing&#8217; injuries after substance thrown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: &#8220;At 6.10pm this evening (Saturday 12 September 2026), we were called to an ongoing disturbance at Exchange Square in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Officers arrived at the scene and established that an individual has had an unknown substance thrown at them following a verbal altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The victim, a male in his mid-teens has received an injury that has been described as not life-threatening but potentially life-changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;There is a scene in place and investigations are currently ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone with information about this incident, including any CCTV, mobile or Dashcam footage is asked to get in contact with GMP using 101 or <a aria-label=\"gmp.police.ukLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/gmp.police.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">gmp.police.uk<\/a>, and quoting log number 2156 of 12\/09\/2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Alternatively, you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: &#8220;At 6.10pm this evening (Saturday 12 September 2026), we were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2951,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-manchester-city-centre","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768991","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=768991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}