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© Thomson Reuters 2020One man killed, seven injured in stabbings in Birmingham
By Phil Noble BIRMINGHAM©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ulysses
Not much news out yet, hope there are no fatalities!!
albaleo
Police have reported one person dead and seven injured. Not much in the way of details yet.
M3M3M3
This appears to be just the latest in a series of stabbings and shootings in Birmingham over the past few weeks.
A sampling of local news since 22 Aug:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sickening-12-hours-violence-at-18816558
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/heartbreak-three-men-murdered-birmingham-18855018
Randy Johnson
Good thing they have strict gun laws.
3RENSHO
"Near the area known as GAY VILLAGE"...?
Sal Affist
Some people did something...
bob
boy oh boy has Jolly Old England changed since the last time I visited back in the day. How could such a lovely bunch who have things like tea time, cheerful "Bobbies", and rustic little villages with quaint pubs become such a violent, stabbing Isle where gays dare not walk down the street.
WHAT has happened??
ClippetyClop
You watch too much telly young fella, we've been robbing, stabbing and shagging each other for decades.
We still have tea time though.
Tangerine2000
Nah. An occasional incident, yes. But the scale which this is happening nowadays is something which didn't exist 20 years ago.
It appears that this stabbing was part of a mass fight between black and asian gangs.
Tangerine2000
Eyewitness describes what happened:
https://twitter.com/DavidhBrown/status/130257706110672486
Tangerine2000
Missed the end of the link:
https://twitter.com/DavidhBrown/status/1302577061106724864
ClippetyClop
Possibly yeah. I've been out of the country for most of this century.
I grew up in Liverpool up until the late 80's, petty crime was just a part of life. Knife crime seems to be horrid thesedays though.
kurisupisu
No, this was not part of a mass fight between black and Asian gangs!
This was ‘one black man’ calmly stabbing people out enjoying themselves, in a predominantly gay part of Birmingham.
As the perpetrator is still at large, the motivation is unknown but it appears to be a senseless one...
Ah_so
Good news is that overall the murder rate in the UK is lower than it was 20 years ago.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/murder-homicide-rate