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Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n
Authorities are appealing to the public to refrain from speculation following an incident involving a young woman in Mullaghbawn on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a call in the Forkhill Road area of the Co Armagh village shortly before 6:30pm on Tuesday, May 13, where they encountered a woman in distress at a licensed premises.<\/p>\n
PSNI officers provided assistance at the scene, and it has since been confirmed that no offences were identified.<\/p>\n
Despite widespread speculation circulating on social media about the nature of the incident, police have clarified that the woman\u2014who was transported to hospital\u2014is not listed as a missing person.<\/p>\n
Aine Quinn, a local Sinn Fein councillor in the area, stated on Wednesday: \u201cAn incident which took place in Mullaghbawn last night has caused concerns within the local community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have spoken to the police and they have said that at present they are continuing to investigate the matter and the circumstances involved, and I would urge the public to allow these investigations to be carried out diligently and void off speculation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police state that at present no complaint has been receive by them and no person\u2019s involved is on a \u2018missing person list\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have asked for further updates from the police and will endeavour to keep the local community informed of any outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n
A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cPolice attended licensed premises in the Forkhill Road area of south Armagh shortly before 6.30pm yesterday, Tuesday, May 13, and spoke with a person in distress.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers provided support, and no offences have been detected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph. Authorities are appealing to the public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[779,5825,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-101840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-news","9":"tag-niamh-campbell","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114508376772859367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}