TEENAGE yobs threw fireworks at police, attacked an ambulance on an emergency call with eggs and smashed the windscreen of a car with a rock in a night of vandalism in Burnley.

Police are appealing to the public to identify the teenagers responsible, who are believed to be between 14 to 18-year-olds old, following the attacks in Princess Way on Sunday evening.

Sgt Michael Burnett, of the Burnley Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “When using this stretch of road motorists should also be aware that youths are deliberately walking into the road to slow vehicles down, which are then pelted with eggs and other missiles.

“This behaviour is clearly a very dangerous and foolhardy practice for all involved. It goes beyond way beyond traditional ‘trick or treat’ mischief making and is serious criminal activity, plain and simple.

“Individual incidents included a female motorist who had the windscreen of her vehicle smashed with a chunk of masonry, an ambulance responding to an emergency was attacked with eggs and police officers attending the incident had fireworks thrown at them.”

Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call police on101 and quote log LC-20151101-1683. Alternatively call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.

Elsewhere in East Lancashire an investigation was launched last month after police received reports that fireworks had been thrown in the Penny Street, Ainsworth Street and Larkhill areas on October 13 and 14.

Five teenagers, two aged 16, two aged 17 and one aged 15, all from Blackburn, have already been arrested in connection with the incidents and officers are still trying to trace a sixth man as part of their enquiries.

Anyone with information about that can contact police or Crimestoppers.