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Machete-wielding clowns terrorised drivers and climbed onto a mother's car bonnet when she stopped at traffic lights with her two young daughters in the back

• Two drivers in Manchester say they were terrorised by clowns in their cars
• Kurtis Mulvaney said he stopped at traffic lights when the clowns struck
• Just half an hour earlier Alice Slattery and her children had seen the same clowns at the traffic lights,  and they jumped on her car bonnet
• Horror scene follows string of clown sightings all over the country

Clowns armed with 'machetes' terrorised drivers who had stopped at a set of traffic lights in Manchester, with one even climbing on one mother's car bonnet leaving her children screaming.

Kurtis Mulvaney, 29, was driving home around 8pm on Sunday when he stopped for lights outside Manchester Fort shopping centre.

Two clowns emerged from bushes and began running towards the cars sending one driver fleeing through a red light - while Mr Mulvaney caught a picture of the terrifying pair peering in through his window, though he believes the weapon was most likely fake.

Mum-of-two Alice Slattery claims she had pulled up at the same lights only half an hour earlier and had turned to check on kids Lily, four, and Honey, three, who were in the back seats when Lily began screaming.

Ms Slattery, 28, says she turned back to find a clown was lay across her Vauxhall Astra's bonnet, prompting her to beep her horn and begin driving, forcing the clown to jump off.

However as she sped away she spotted that a second clown 'with something in his hand' had been lurking behind her car.

Ms Slattery, from Swinton, Greater Manchester, said: 'It was like something out of a horror movie.

'I had just looked around to check the two girls were OK and Lily started suddenly screaming.

'I turned round and there was a clown lay across the bonnet. His feet were close to the driver's side wheel and he was leaning on his elbow as if he was posing, like he was showing off.

'But he didn't have a normal clown mask on - it was quite a scary one. I was shocked. I didn't know whether to laugh or scream so I beeped my horn and luckily the lights changed so I started to drive and he jumped off.

'I felt a bit sick, I was just rushing but I was more concerned about the kids. I would have just driven through the lights if they hadn't changed.

'As I drove I away I saw another had been stood behind the car in the road. He had something in his hand but I couldn't see what it was.

I decided to pick this story as my weekly news as it is an issue which has been going around the different news channels for the past week now. It covers the representation of issues as it is a way of commiting crime happening not only in one area but multiple countries such as the USA, Canada and now the UK.