Aston Villa team bus hit by brick after win at Burnley

Villa secured their 2nd Premier League triumph of the play connected Sunday astatine Turf Moor

The windscreen of Aston Villa's squad autobus was deed by a ceramic arsenic the broadside were travelling backmost to the Midlands pursuing their triumph astatine Burnley.

In a connection Burnley said the nine are "relieved to perceive cipher was hurt."

"We powerfully condemn this behaviour and volition enactment Lancashire Police successful their efforts to find whoever was responsible," the connection added.

Supt Melita Worswick, of Lancashire Police, said: "This incidental occurred erstwhile a large woody of postulation was leaving the country pursuing the shot lucifer betwixt Burnley and Aston Villa.

"It is thing but bully luck that the ceramic didn't origin much damage, oregon effect successful idiosyncratic being earnestly injured oregon adjacent killed."

The incidental happened astir 2 miles distant from Burnley's Turf Moor ground.