Police have launched an investigation after a car was deliberately set on fire outside a Lanarkshire home.
The late night attack saw a BMW convertible set ablaze on Friday, June 3 at around 11.55pm.
It was parked in a driveway on Pailis Crescent in Bothwell as it quickly became engulfed in flames.
Panicked neighbours could only watch on as calls to Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent crews racing to the scene.
One appliance was used to extinguish the fire and make the area safe.
The inferno was put out before it was able to spread and there were no reported injuries.
It's understood no one was in the £425,000 villa at the time.
Nearby residents told the Sunday Mail that the owners of the property lived abroad and the occupant, believed to be a middle-aged woman, had moved in only six months ago.
One neighbour said he was woken by the sound of a bang shortly before midnight as he was about to go to bed.
He explained: “When I looked out I could see a fireball engulfing the car, with thick smoke billowing out above.”
Police Scotland say they are treating the attack as deliberate.
A spokesperson from the force said: “We received a report of a car on fire on Pailis Crescent, Bothwell, around 11.55pm on Friday, June 3.
“The fire is currently being treated as wilful and enquiries are ongoing.”
And a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson told Lanarkshire Live today: "We were alerted at 11.43pm on Friday, 3 June to reports of a car fire at Pailis Crescent, Bothwell.
"Operations Control mobilised one appliance to the scene to extinguish the fire and make the area safe.
"There were no reported casualties."
It's not the first time the local area has been targeted in recent years with deliberate fire-raising.
Last May a Range Rover and Mercedes were torched outside the home of a businessman in Bothwell.
That happened after another neighbour had his £260,000 Rolls-Royce destroyed in an earlier blaze.
That same month a luxury garden bar at a Bothwell hom, was set on fire.
In 2019, Bothwell restaurant Vincenzo was firebombed.
There was a second mystery fire there in March this year.
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