07/01/2014

Two Arrested In Police Chase

Two men have been arrested following a police car chase in Belfast.

The vehicle, a silver Hyundai, was stolen from Carlisle Square in the north of the city just before 6.30am on Tuesday. Police followed the car – which is thought to have been involved in three minor collisions as a result of the chase – across the Belfast area. It was later found abandoned in the west of the city at around 8.45am.

Two men, both understood to be aged 18, were arrested in the Bog Meadows area.

(JP)

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