A man has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting the bush fire that broke out this afternoon on Rua Cônego Doutor Jorge de Freitas, beside the slope of the New Cemetery in Caniço. The arrest was confirmed to DIÁRIO by Paulo Renato Baptista, coordinator of the Municipal Civil Protection…
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A stall at the Christmas fair held on Avenida Arriaga and Praça da Restauração caught fire this early evening. Firefighters were mobilised to the scene, where one of the thatched houses had caught fire. Local stallholders controlled the fire until firefighters arrived. It was initially thought that a heat induction…