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Police probe after electric car deliberately set on fire in Angus

Police say the fire near Mains of Fowlis was deliberate.

The car has been taped off. Image: Richard Prest/DC Thomson
The car has been taped off. Image: Richard Prest/DC Thomson

An investigation has been launched after an electric car was set on fire between two Angus villages.

The car has been left taped off at the side of the road close to Mains of Fowlis, between Fowlis and Benvie, near Dundee.

Emergency services were called to the blaze on Saturday evening.

Two crews of firefighters from Dundee and a hazmat team spent more than an hour extinguishing the flames.

The burnt-out car remained at the scene on Sunday morning.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 5.25pm on Saturday, February 15, officers received a report of a car of fire on an unnamed road near Fowlis.

“The fire is being treated as wilful and enquiries are ongoing.”

A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We received a call at 5.29pm for a car on fire near Mains of Fowlis.

“The stop message came at 7.01pm.

“We sent two pumps and a hazmat team, all from Dundee, as it was an electric vehicle.”

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