Belfast: Phone masts and electricity boxes set on fire

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Scorched phone mast
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Police are investigating a potential link between the fires

Police are appealing for information after a number of phone masts and electricity boxes were set on fire in Belfast.

Five fires were reported across the city between 23:15 BST on Thursday night and 03:45 BST on Friday morning.

Crews first attended a phone mast on fire in the Donegall Road area.

Fires were also extinguished in the Owenvarragh Park, Springfield Road, Monagh bypass and Stewartstown Road areas in west Belfast.

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Workers from NIE are making the site of one of the phone mast attacks safe

PSNI Insp Hamilton said officers are investigating a potential link between the incidents and urged anyone with information or dash-cam footage to contact police.

Workers from NIE have been at the Moynagh bypass on Friday to make the site of one of the phone mast attacks safe.