Thick smoke as huge fire breaks out at Liberia’s Capitol building Liberia’s former speaker of parliament has been charged with arson over a fire at the nation’s House of Representatives, local police have said. The huge blaze broke out last December, a day after plans to remove Jonathan Fonati Koffa from his role as speaker...
Lucy Clarke-Billings BBC News London Fire Brigade Damage caused by a fire at an industrial unit in Leyton Arsonists were “livestreamed” as they set fire to a business supplying Starlink satellite equipment to Ukraine after being recruited by agents for the Russian mercenary group Wagner, a court has heard. Around £1m of damage was caused...
A little over a week and a half ago, I told y’all how British police were crackin’ the case of the weirdest firebug infestation ever to plague a British Prime Minister…if ever one had. Over the course of four days, various vehicles and properties all came under firebomb attacks, and every last incident had something...
A man arrested over a “suspected act of terrorism” in Boulder, Colorado, has been charged with a federal hate crime and 16 state counts of attempted murder after officials say he started “setting people on fire”. The attack took place on Sunday when a group was gathered for an event called Run for their Lives,...
Victoria Police have released footage of the moment a man tried to commit arson by setting a restaurant on fire in Melbourne on 21 May 2024. The unknown man poured liquid from a jerry can around the premises before accidentally setting his clothes on fire. Police have released the CCTV in an appeal to the...
A man, who was homeless at the time, has admitted starting a fire behind a barber’s shop which he then tried to extinguish with his own urine. Ryan O’Shea, 40, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court to one charge of arson following an incident outside Spike-Up Barbers in Mutley Plain on 7...
Getty Images Shapiro, a contender for vice-president during Kamala Harris’s 2024 White House run, held a news conference in front of the damaged home A 38-year-old man has been arrested and is due to be charged following an alleged arson attack on the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, authorities have said. Cody Balmer...
Nursery owners say they are “heartbroken and deflated” after a suspected arson attack at their building. Police have launched an investigation after the blaze at Bright Beams Day Nursery. in Plymouth, on Monday evening. The nursery on Billacombe Road, which was due to open in September, said emergency services had to “waste hours of their...
Police have charged a man in connection to a suspected arson attack in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said 40-year-old Ryan O’Shea, of Edgar Terrace, Plymouth, was charged with arson. The charge relates to a fire outside a property in the Mutley Plain area of the city on Monday 7 April. The force said Mr...
A man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was called by the fire service to an incident outside a property in Mutley Plain Lane at 04:30 BST. A small number of people were evacuated while the property was made safe and a cordon...
A huge gorse fire in County Down which led to the evacuation of homes in the vicinity of the Mourne Mountains is believed to have been started deliberately. A major incident was declared after the large wildfire broke out on the Sandbank Road in Hilltown about 17:00 BST on Saturday. More than 100 firefighters with...