{"id":11963,"date":"2018-08-07T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:01:59","slug":"birmingham-prison-armed-men-set-cars-on-fire-outside-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/08\/07\/birmingham-prison-armed-men-set-cars-on-fire-outside-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham prison: &#8216;Armed men&#8217; set cars on fire outside jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Two masked men who were &#8220;armed with a firearm&#8221; fled from outside Birmingham Prison after cars were set on fire in a nearby car park.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said the men made off in a vehicle after several cars were set on fire outside the prison, which is in the Winson Green area of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>They said no injuries were reported in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Fire Service said they were called at 13:24 BST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Two fire engine crews were sent to the fire, which involved &#8220;a number of cars&#8221;, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>HMP Birmingham director Rob Kellett said: &#8220;At approximately 1.30pm this afternoon an incident took place in the car park across the road from HM Prison Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has been injured. West Midlands Police and the fire service are in attendance, and a fire has been extinguished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-45102877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Two masked men who were &#8220;armed with a firearm&#8221; fled from outside Birmingham Prison after cars were set on fire in a nearby car park. West Midlands Police said the men made off in a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/08\/07\/birmingham-prison-armed-men-set-cars-on-fire-outside-jail\/\" title=\"Birmingham prison: &#8216;Armed men&#8217; set cars on fire outside jail\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[5344,4342,4670],"class_list":{"0":"post-11963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-birmingham-prison","10":"tag-hmp-birmingham","11":"tag-winson-green","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11965,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/11965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}