Police are appealing for information after an attempt was made to set a Co Down house alight while children were asleep inside.<\/p>\n
The incident was reported at about 3.45am on Saturday in the Struell Avenue area of Downpatrick.<\/p>\n
Police were told two males had approached a house and poured petrol over the front door and a car before trying to set them on fire.<\/p>\n
\n There were a number of children and adults asleep in the property at the time this happened and it is very fortunate nobody was injured<\/p>\n
PSNI spokesperson\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They left the scene in a vehicle before police arrived.<\/p>\n
A short time later, a car was set alight in the Saul Road area and police believe this is the vehicle the suspects travelled in.<\/p>\n
A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cLuckily, the fire had not spread and was extinguished by the resident of the property relatively quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, there were a number of children and adults asleep in the property at the time this happened and it is very fortunate nobody was injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
Any witness or people with doorbell or dashcam footage from the area is asked to call PSNI on 101 quoting reference 204 of 25\/10\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after an attempt was made to set a Co Down house alight while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-145053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115436374167377106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}