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Page last updated at 15:37 GMT, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:37 UK

Generators pushed from chase van

Police car

Four men have been arrested after a chase involving police and a van in west Belfast area on Tuesday.

Two generators, believed to have been stolen from Duncrue Industrial Estate on Sunday, were pushed from the van during the incident.

It also collided with other vehicles at Upper Dunmurry Lane and Kennedy Way. A man, a woman and a child were injured in the first crash.

The van, slowed by a police stinger, was abandoned at Monagh Bypass.

Police began chasing the van, which was towing a trailer and carrying a number of generators, after it failed to stop at Stewartstown Road.

The stinger device was used a short time later.

Two of the generators were pushed out of the van at Kennedy Way and Old Golf Course Road.

The three people taken to hospital after the Upper Dunmurry Lane collision are not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries.

Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.



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