
Australia: woman set another alight in shopping precinct
Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2011-06-27 02:54
Link to story here. Excerpt:
'A woman allegedly doused another woman in petrol and set her alight in a busy inner-city Perth shopping precinct yesterday afternoon.
The frantic 37-year-old woman was seen running into a toilet block off Rokeby Road, Subiaco, with her clothes on fire.
Emergency services were called to the trendy cafe strip, where they found the woman hiding inside the toilet block nearby.
A police spokesman told ninemsn the woman suffered burns to seven percent of her body and was taken to Royal Perth Hospital in a stable condition.
A woman who was working in a nearby book store told The West Australian newspaper she could smell smoke coming from toilet block.'
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