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Arson
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Arson
Deliberately setting fire with a destructive intent. Arson can be intended to incite terror; for example, a loan shark may set fire to a building owned by a debtor. Insurance for businesses and homes usually covers arson, though sometimes company owners set fire to their own buildings as a form of insurance fraud.


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Byline: HYWEL TREWYN Pictures: STACEY ROBERTS POLICE are hunting arsonists who set fire to a popular gym for the third time in as many months causing pounds 40,000 worth of damage.
Officers confirmed to the Daily Telegraph that a serial arsonist was being investigated in connection with the Gippsland blaze that has so far claimed 21 lives.
She said authorities were confident of arresting an arsonist blamed for starting and repeatedly reigniting fires in Gippsland, in Victoria's east, where almost 20 people have died.
 
 
 
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