Police have launched an investigation after a stolen dump truck smashed into a Telford home 'deliberately' following a break-in.

Officers were called to reports of two men breaking into a construction site on Main Road in Ketley Bank at around 12.42pm yesterday, September 14.

The two men made off in a dump truck which then crashed into a house in Mullinder Drive around five minutes later.

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Police said the smash was being investigated as being "deliberate" and that only one man was known to have fled the scene.

"The property was substantially damaged around the front door and surrounding brickwork," a spokesperson for West Mercia Police said.

"But thankfully no-one was injured."

The force

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