Car completely gutted by fire in suspicious incident on dirt track

Fire services were called to the blazing Ford Mondeo which was down a dirt track off Millers Lane in Atherton.

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The incident happened at about 8pm on Monday.

A local resident spotted the flames and alerted the emergency services.

The fire is being treated as suspicious and details are being passed to Greater Manchester Police.

The fire crews were at the scene for around an hour.