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WATCH: CCTV shows arsonist suspects running from exploding Audi

CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment a family car was torched in the Black Country.

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This CCTV footage shows men pouring liquid onto the Audi

The image above captures the moment two suspected arsonists poured liquid onto a car parked outside a family home.

Seconds later the £40,000 Audi was engulfed in flames and exploded – forcing the occupants of the Tipton house to flee for safety.

Police are now treating the incident as ‘arson with intent to endanger life’.

The arsonists are believed to have struck in the early hours of Saturday morning when they used petrol to ignite the Audi, which belonged to Ross Oakley..

WATCH: CCTV shows men flee exploding car

Ross, aged 26, fled the house with his partner Rhian Bayley, 24, and two-year-old daughter Scarlett.

Police are investigating the blaze but the arsonists remain on the run.

And now the CCTV footage above, captured from a neighbouring property, has emerged showing two people approach Ross’ Audi before it ignited in a ball of fire.

Ross was alerted to the fire after he and Rhian heard an explosion while in bed.

The burnt-out car in the aftermath of the blaze

The couple quickly got themselves and Scarlett out of the building as the flames spread to the house and garage.

As they reached the ground floor of the communal stairway, they heard another explosion and Rhian and Scarlett retreated to the back garden for safety while Ross dialled 999.

Fire crews were called to the scene at 12.46am and used a hose-reel jet to douse the flames.

The gutted interior

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: “We were alerted by the fire service to a car fire outside a house on Thunderbolt Way, Tipton at around 1.20am on Saturday, November 17.

“Based on the information provided from the fire service at the time, officers did not attend and an appointment was made to take details from the victims.

“Further information was later received from the victim and the fire service which detailed how their house and a neighbour’s property were also damaged by the car fire.

“As a result the incident has been reclassified as arson with intent to endanger life and an investigation is underway.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101.

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