{"id":59135,"date":"2026-08-21T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/north-belfast-police-investigate-arson-attack-as-accelerant-poured-on-house\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:59:17","slug":"north-belfast-police-investigate-arson-attack-as-accelerant-poured-on-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/north-belfast-police-investigate-arson-attack-as-accelerant-poured-on-house\/","title":{"rendered":"North Belfast: Police investigate arson attack as accelerant poured on house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Police are investigating an arson attack in north Belfast after an accelerant was poured onto windows of a house and set alight. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened in the Halliday&#8217;s Road area shortly before 22:00 BST on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service and police were at the the scene and the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the incident is being treated as arson with intent to endanger life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone with information is being asked to contact them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz97dvz3gv8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating an arson attack in north Belfast after an accelerant was poured onto windows of a house and set alight. The incident happened in the Halliday&#8217;s Road area shortly before 22:00 BST on Thursday. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service and police were at the the scene and the fire was extinguished. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[16402,3726,1073,420,697,1790,293,599,16403],"class_list":["post-59135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-accelerant","tag-arson","tag-attack","tag-belfast","tag-house","tag-investigate","tag-north","tag-police","tag-poured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59137,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135\/revisions\/59137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}