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Two people were arrested after a pair of RCMP vehicles were rammed by a stolen truck in a fast food restaurant drive-thru in Westlock early Friday morning.

Shortly after midnight, police identified a stolen vehicle from Athabasca in the McDonald’s drive-thru and moved in to arrest the occupants of the truck, Westlock RCMP said in a news release.

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After officers activated their lights, police said the truck rammed the two marked police vehicles in front and behind multiple times until coming up on the hood of the police vehicle behind it in the drive-thru lane.

RCMP were able to conduct a high-risk arrest of both of the occupants of the truck, a male driver and a female passenger. Both were assessed at a local hospital before being released into police custody.

The incident was captured on video and shared on social media.

No one was injured during the incident and no other vehicles were damaged. Several criminal charges are pending.

Westlock is about 90 kilometres north of Edmonton.

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