14/09/2015

Man Left Badly Shaken Following Arson Attack

An object was set on fire and pushed through a letterbox in an arson attack in north Belfast.

Police are treating the incident, which happened at a flat in Castletown Avenue on Sunday evening, as an arson attack.

A man who was in the house at the time was left badly shaken.

Emergency fire crews extinguished the fire.

Police are appealing to anyone with information to contact them.

(CD)

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