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06/08/2001
Three people escape blaze in Ballymena arson attempt
Three people were forced to flee from their Ballymena home after a fire was deliberately started outside the building.
The residents of the house, in Victoria Park, noticed flames outside the front of the building in the early hours of Sunday 5 August, following the setting alight of two tyres outside the front door. The inhabitants, two men and a woman, managed to escape the blaze by climbing through an upstairs window, while firefighters brought the situation under control. The people inside the house were later taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
Meanwhile, cannabis with an estimated street value of £100,000 was seized in Ballymena when drugs squad officers stopped a car on the dual carriageway on the outskirts of the town.
A man and a woman have been charged with possession, and possession with intent to supply illegal drugs. (CL)
The residents of the house, in Victoria Park, noticed flames outside the front of the building in the early hours of Sunday 5 August, following the setting alight of two tyres outside the front door. The inhabitants, two men and a woman, managed to escape the blaze by climbing through an upstairs window, while firefighters brought the situation under control. The people inside the house were later taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
Meanwhile, cannabis with an estimated street value of £100,000 was seized in Ballymena when drugs squad officers stopped a car on the dual carriageway on the outskirts of the town.
A man and a woman have been charged with possession, and possession with intent to supply illegal drugs. (CL)
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