Car driven into Glasgow home and set alight amid ongoing gang war

A car has been driven into a Glasgow home and set alight amid an ongoing criminal feud.

Emergency services were called to Garvel Crescent in the Barlanark area of Glasgow at around 12.40am on Thursday.

A car was driven into a building and torched, with the fire then spreading to the property.

The fire was extinguished, and nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution.

Detectives are treating the incident as deliberate. No arrests have been made, and an investigation is ongoing.

Images from the scene show a boarded-up window, scorched grass, and brickwork.

Links to Operation Portaledge, launched after a gang war broke out across Scotland’s Central Belt, are being explored.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 12.40am on Thursday, June 18, 2026, we were made aware of a vehicle fire which had spread to a property on Garvel Crescent in Glasgow.

“Emergency services attended, the fire was extinguished, and there were no reports of injuries. Nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution.

“It is being treated as wilful, and enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.”

The incident on Garvel Crescent comes two days after a business on The Wisp in Edinburgh was firebombed.

Detectives from the Portaledge team are also involved with the investigation.

Resurgence in gang-war-linked violence

A large-scale crackdown on the country’s criminal underworld was launched after two homes in Edinburgh were targeted by gunmen last March.

Over the next year, there were a slew of firebombings, assaults, home invasions and a bounty placed on the head of a jailed drug kingpin.

There was a resurgence in gang war-related activity last month, with one home on Balderston Gardens North in the capital targeted twice within 24 hours.

At the same time period, a skip lorry was driven into a living room on Brand Drive.

A gang, currently embroiled in the criminal feud spanning Scotland’s central belt, has claimed responsibility for the incident.

The footage is overlaid with the song Go by the Chemical Brothers, which has seen a resurgence in popularity following the release of Apex on Netflix.

The movie follows Charlize Theron’s protagonist as she flees Taron Egerton’s antagonist through the Australian wilderness. The Chemical Brothers song is used by Egerton’s character to signify the beginning of the hunt.

The skip lorry video ends with a warning to those targeted, “Expect consequences,” and features the Tamo Junto (TMJ) logo.