Belfast: Man dies after crash involving stolen vehicle

A man has died and two others have been critically injured in a multiple-vehicle road accident involving a stolen car in south Belfast last night.

The PSNI is investigating the circumstances of the crash, but the dead man is believed to have been a passenger in a car that had been hijacked less than an hour earlier in Belfast city centre.

It had also apparently been used in a robbery at a filling station in Newtownabbey.

Police have been focusing on tackling car crime in Belfast, but said they were not chasing the stolen car involved in yesterday's pile-up, which happened at around 8pm on Boucher Road.

They have informed the Police Ombudsman of the matter, however.

A total of six cars, including a taxi, were involved in the collision.

The dead man and both injured parties are believed to be in their late teens and early 20s.