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The incident is understood to be in the Irish Street area of the city<\/p>\n
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at a pub in Armagh. <\/p>\n
Two people have been taken to hospital for treatment to their injuries after the incident at the Toby Jug Bar on Irish Street in the city. <\/p>\n
A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cOfficers received a report of a fire shortly around 8:55pm. They were in attendance alongside colleagues from Northern Ireland Fire Rescue Service who extinguished the blaze.<\/p>\n
“Two people have been taken to hospital for treatment to their injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA 38 year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and arson with intent to endanger life. He remains in custody at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
A local MP has referred to it as a \u201cfrightening incident for those in the vicinity.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The incident is understood to be in the Irish Street area of the city<\/p>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in MP for Newry and Armagh, D\u00e1ire Hughes, said: \u201cThis was a frightening incident for those in the vicinity, and I want to commend the swift response from emergency services.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice will remain in the area over the coming hours as their investigation continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts are with anyone who may have been injured or impacted by this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
The road was aclosed to traffic while the blaze was dealt with.<\/p>\n
An ambulance service spokesperson confirmed they attended the scene following an 999 call on Monday night. <\/p>\n
Two people were taken to Craigavon Area Hospital following initial treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 The incident is understood to be in the Irish Street area of the city A man has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39107,59,57,58,50,2497,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-76773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-armagh-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}