A house was ‘petrol bombed’ by arsonists in ‘an extremely serious incident’, police say.
Cops have confirmed that a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of an address in Crossfield Road, in Skelmersdale, near Wigan, at around 1am on Saturday, July 10.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the attack.
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However, some smoke damage was caused to the property.
Police are yet to make an arrest at this stage, and say ‘enquiries are very much ongoing’ — urging any witnesses or those with CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward.
“This is an extremely serious incident which could have resulted in people being seriously injured or killed,” DS Di Higham, of Lancashire Police’s West CID, said.
“We are treating this incident as arson and have a team of detectives working to identify those responsible.
“Although we cannot release any suspect descriptions at this time we would ask anybody who saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area around the time of the arson attack to get in touch with police.
“Similarly, we would ask people to check their CCTV and dashcam footage to see if they have captured anything which could assist our enquiries.”
Anyone with information is asked to email 64@lancashire.police.uk or call 101, quoting log 0095 of July 10, 2021.
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