More than 50 co-ordinated arson and incendiary attacks “aimed at creating unrest” have been carried out across Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, the Thai military has said. Two people were injured, with a local government office building, a convenience store, and a stolen vehicle among the targets set on fire. The incidents took place across the country’s
German investigators believe they have now identified an arsonist who set fire to a Jewish community centre in Munich in 1970, killing seven people. For decades the man’s identity remained a mystery. But Munich prosecutors now believe he was a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi with known antisemitic opinions. The seven killed were all Holocaust survivors aged
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was arrested Monday on suspicion of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire, the largest of three wildfires burning around Spokane. The fires have destroyed over 700 buildings, forced over 60,000 people to evacuate, and devastated communities in and around Washington’s second-largest city. Farinacci has a prior felony manslaughter conviction
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson over the largest of the wildfires that have forced more than 60,000 people to evacuate from the city of Spokane in Washington state. Three major fires have been burning around the north-western state’s second-most-populous city since the weekend, with firefighters still working to contain the flames.
SPOKANE, Wash. — A man from Spokane, Washington, was arrested Monday and charged with setting one of the three devastating wildfires that are burning through the region. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested and booked on suspicion of first degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire, the
Eight people, including six children, were found dead in a Michigan home after a fire, some with gunshot wounds, authorities said Friday. Police and firefighters responded shortly before noon to a house fire in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. When they entered, they found the bodies, Capt. Jacob Sparks of