PSNI investigate suspicious fires

Police are investigating two separate fires in the North in which nine people escaped.

Firefighters managed to rescue a man from a burning flat in Dungannon, Co Tyrone.

Investigators are working along the lines that the blaze was an arson attack.

In a separate incident, eight people were rescued from a fire at a block of flats in Co Down.

There were no reports of any injuries and the fire is also being investigated as suspicious.