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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent

Police make arrests after body found in car boot in south Belfast

Police officers examine the car in which the body of a man was found south Belfast.
Police officers examine the car in which the body of a man was found south Belfast. Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast

Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a man and a woman in their 20s after the discovery of a body in the boot of car in south Belfast.

The man’s body was found in the vehicle in the Windsor Road area not far from Queen’s University on Sunday morning.

Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland are also examining a separate scene at Church Gate apartments in the Mill Street area of Comber, County Down.

DCI John McVea said: “I appeal to anyone who was in or around the Church Gate Studios late last night or earlier this morning and heard a disturbance or noted any suspicious activity to contact detectives.”

Local city councillor, the SDLP’s Declan Boyle, appealed for the public to co-operate with the PSNI in relation to the killing.

He said: “The entire community is in shock. I would like to express my sympathy to the family of this young man as they come to terms with this sudden loss.”

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