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Woman arrested in connection with Londonderry petrol bomb attack Londonderry petrol bomb attack: Three arrested
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A 44-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with an attack in which a man was set on fire with a petrol bomb. Three people have been arrested in connection with an attack in Londonderry in which a man was set on fire with a petrol bomb.
The man sustained burns to 40% of his body after two youths broke a window of a house in Londonderry on Friday night and threw the petrol bomb at him. Two youths broke a window and threw the petrol bomb into a house in Benvarden Avenue at around 23.10 BST on Friday.
The 45-year-old was rescued from the house at Benvarden Avenue by two neighbours but remains critically ill. Thomas Curry sustained 40% burns to his body and is in a critical condition in hospital. A 24-year-old man was arrested on Sunday.
Police are treating the attack as attempted murder. They arrested the woman in Derry on Sunday afternoon. A 25-year-old man and 44-year-old woman have also been arrested.
They said she is assisting investigators with their inquires. Mr Curry was rescued from the house at Benvarden Avenue by two neighbours.
Ivan Ballard was one of the neighbours who pulled the man to safety.
"I got down as low as I could in the smoke. The sofa was on fire which lit up the room a bit more and that's how I saw him," he said.
"I tried to drag him from the floor out, but at this stage his clothes had melted to the floor.
"The smoke was catching my chest, I couldn't breathe properly, so I called for somebody to give me a hand and my neighbour who went in previously, he came in then and I got a hold of him in the hall and we took him out of the house.
"I can't get the images of him in a ring of fire, of him burning out of my head."
The injured man is being treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and has undergone at least two operations.The injured man is being treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and has undergone at least two operations.
PSNI Ch Insp Jon Burrows said officers are looking at mistaken identity as one line of inquiry for the attack.
"Certainly, that is one line of enquiry because Mr Curry is entirely innocent and of course we're keen to hear what the motive for this was," he said
"No motivation, no background, justifies the action that was taken, but it would help us make sense of it, it would help our investigators make progress.
"I can reassure the public that our most senior detectives are investigating this, but we're still very early in the investigation and I need the community to give us the information about who did this."