Woman has serious injuries following incident in Rochdale

Date published: 28 July 2015


A woman has been taken to hospital with serious injuries and a man arrested following an incident in Shawclough, Rochdale.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "Police were called to a house on Shawclough Way, Rochdale at 9.50pm [Tuesday 28 July]. On arrival officers arrested a man with a gun. A woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries."

It is understood Shawclough Way remains cordoned off by the police.

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UPDATE
29 July

The woman was stabbed and has died, police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder.

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/97283/woman-dies-following-stabbing-on-shawclough-way-two-men-arrested

Police have now said that the gun found at the house was a BB gun, not a firearm.

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