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13/01/2012
Woman Carjacked In Belfast
A woman has had her car hijacked in Belfast City Centre this morning this will be the sixth carjacking in the Belfast area in the last ten days.
The woman was parking her car in John Street area at 07.30 when a man wearing a hooded top approached the car opened the door and ordered her to get out.
A struggled ensued and the woman got out following this the man then drove of in the car at high speed. He turned left at the end of John Street. The woman was not injured in the incident.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
This marks the sixth carjacking in the Belfast area in just over a week.
Earlier in the week Police dismissed claims that four previous carjackings are connected.
All four incidents happened in the Belfast City area and all the victims were women. Meanwhile all four cars were found burnt out in the Divis and Grosvenor areas of West Belfast.
Police have however said that evidence collected at this point does not connect the incidents and there are no links at this point to suggest the crimes were committed by the same people.
(LB)
The woman was parking her car in John Street area at 07.30 when a man wearing a hooded top approached the car opened the door and ordered her to get out.
A struggled ensued and the woman got out following this the man then drove of in the car at high speed. He turned left at the end of John Street. The woman was not injured in the incident.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
This marks the sixth carjacking in the Belfast area in just over a week.
Earlier in the week Police dismissed claims that four previous carjackings are connected.
All four incidents happened in the Belfast City area and all the victims were women. Meanwhile all four cars were found burnt out in the Divis and Grosvenor areas of West Belfast.
Police have however said that evidence collected at this point does not connect the incidents and there are no links at this point to suggest the crimes were committed by the same people.
(LB)
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