{"id":574309,"date":"2025-11-16T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:52:16","slug":"ballymagroarty-area-derry-car-destroyed-as-police-probe-arson-attack-targeting-vehicle-in-ni-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574309\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymagroarty area, Derry: Car destroyed as police probe arson attack targeting vehicle in NI city"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n

A vehicle has been destroyed following an arson attack in Londonderry on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Police said the car was targeted in the Ballymagroarty area of the city.<\/p>\n

They said an investigation is now underway.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n

News Catch Up – Friday 14 November <\/p>\n

PSNI Chief Inspector Cathal Pearce said: \u201cWe received a report at approximately 11.10pm on Saturday, 15th November that a car had been set alight in the Merriman Court area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers attended, alongside colleagues from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service who extinguished the blaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cThankfully, no injuries were reported, however, extensive damage was caused to the front of the vehicle as a result of the fire, which is being treated as arson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re keen to hear from anyone who might have been in the area on Saturday evening or who saw anyone acting suspiciously, particularly two persons who were in the area on an electric scooter.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease call us on 101 with any available information, quoting reference number 1607 15\/11\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph. A vehicle has been destroyed following an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6722,1817,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-574309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christopher-leebody","9":"tag-derry-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115559946391313905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574309","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=574309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}