{"id":369861,"date":"2026-03-28T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:46:08","slug":"two-escape-injury-following-arson-attack-in-downpatrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369861\/","title":{"rendered":"Two escape injury following arson attack in Downpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have escaped injury following an arson attack at a house in Co Down.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are appealing for information about the incident at around 1:50am on Saturday at the property in the Saul Street area of Downpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesman said officers, as well as colleagues from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, attended the scene, where the front door of a house was on fire and a number of ground-floor windows were smashed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Appeal for information following arson attack in Downpatrick. Details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o1QAh7IreH\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/o1QAh7IreH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MZ2od5xoYB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MZ2od5xoYB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police Service NI (@PoliceServiceNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI\/status\/2037869807966556615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They added: \u201cHowever, the two people who were in the property at the time of the attack were able to exit the house safely and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was obviously a shock for them, however, and there was significant damage caused to their home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident is being treated as deliberate ignition and as arson with intent to endanger life.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 80 of 28\/03\/26.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have escaped injury following an arson attack at a house in Co Down. Detectives are appealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-369861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}