Cops have launched a frantic search for a Scots woman who vanished on Friday morning.
01.11.2022 - 01:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Rampaging youths set fire to a road before throwing fireworks into the blaze this evening. Emergency services raced to Balgowan Avenue in Dundee after the alarm was raised at around 5.30pm.
At a time when children should have been heading out Trick or Treating, locals were urged to avoid the area after multiple fires were set on the road. Shocking pictures showed terrifying scenes as four separate blazes burned, blocking the road.
Cars could be seen parked nearby as horrified passers-by watched on. It's understood fireworks were being thrown across the road into the fire before exploding in the blaze.
Eye-witness Alex Walker, from Dundee, was forced to drive up on the pavement as he tried to escape the carnage. Speaking to the Record, Alex said: "I was driving home along Balgowan Avenue and spotted the fire in the distance expecting it to be up in the grassy hill.
"It was only when I got close that I realised it was multiple bits of fire in the various parts of the road. They literally blocked off three junctions. They were throwing fireworks across the road onto the fires and they were exploding.
"I had to stop and work out how to get away from it and that was when I took the photo. I drove up onto the grassy central reservation and over onto the other side of the road and the drove away from it.
"There has been helicopters flying overhead since. Not the sort of thing you would expect to see on a Monday night in Dundee. It will be bonfire night at the weekend. I dread to think what that will be like."
It's understood the Police Scotland helicopter remains at the scene as the incident remains ongoing.
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