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Two 13-year-olds have turned themselves over to police after a blaze burned down a seven-storey heritage building in central Sydney, officers said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australian police said an arson investigation had been launched after Thursday’s fire at a vacant former hat factory, which spread to an adjacent building and forced mass evacuations before being extinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of young people were “seen running from the fire scene shortly after 4 pm”, assistant commissioner Paul Dunstan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Two young people handed themselves in at two separate police stations in the late hours of last night.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are speaking with these young people throughout the evening and they are now assisting police with our inquiries,” he added, saying both were 13 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called on three or four other “young people who were present during the fire” to come forward with their parents to “put their side of the story forward”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after the blaze erupted, flames higher than the building and a thick column of smoke could be seen across Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The entire top floor wall toppled and crashed into pieces on the street below, fire service video showed, as the building glowed orange with flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rush hour transport to and from nearby Central Station had to be stopped as firefighters tackled the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NDTV News: Two 13-year-olds have turned themselves over to police after a blaze burned down a seven-storey heritage building in central Sydney, officers said Friday. Australian police said an arson investigation had been launched after Thursday’s fire at a vacant former hat factory, which spread to an adjacent building and forced mass evacuations before being extinguished. A group of young people were “seen running from the fire scene shortly after 4 pm”, assistant commissioner Paul Dunstan said. “Two young people handed themselves in at two separate police stations in the late hours of last night.” “We are speaking with these… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32389,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32387\/revisions\/32389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}