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Tom Wilkinson

Cars torched at vigil after A66 crash as MP describes violence as ‘terrorism’

A field at Haswell, County Durham, where cars were torched at a memorial event for Michael Cahill, one of the men who died in the A66 crash (Tom Wilkinson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Cars have been torched at a vigil for one of the men who died in the A66 crash, as an MP described the spate of violence in the Middlesbrough area as “terrorism”.

Hundreds of extra police officers have been drafted in after a series of deadly incidents, starting with the head-on crash that killed two police officers and five young men on Saturday and a house fire which claimed the lives of a seven-year-old girl and her aunt on Wednesday.

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