Neighbourhood which had been 'quiet after shooting' wakes up to sirens and blue lights
27.01.2022 - 23:21
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Tameside community was left in shock after an early morning knife attack left a man needing urgent help.
Residents on Birch Street and Pelham Street were woken by blue lights and the sound of sirens as emergency services raced out to Guide Bridge, Ashton, at around 5am today (January 27).
Officers called out to reports of a stabbing discovered a man in his 40s with serious facial injuries.
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He was treated by paramedics on nearby Stockport Road, close to the Shell petrol station, before being rushed to hospital.
The incident took place in the same neighbourhood where a dad-of-two had been gunned down back in summer 2018.
But neighbours speaking to the Manchester Evening News said the street had been 'very quiet' in the years since Luke Graham's death, and today's incident had come as a surprise.
One Birch Street resident said: "All I heard were the sirens, and I saw the lights on a police van. Apart from that I'd been dead to the world.
"I didn't hear what had happened. It's been quiet here for the past couple of years."
Greater Manchester Police described the man's condition as stable earlier this afternoon and confirmed a 35-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of assault.
Having arrived on the scene at around 5am, police remained in the area until 1pm.
Eyewitnesses saw a cordon close to the Shell petrol station and along Birch Street early this morning.
Hours later, just a small area was cordoned off at the junction of Birch Street and Pelham Street.
Residents on Pelham Street told the M.E.N. they woke up to around four police cars and a couple of vans parked outside their home as