NSW: Ten stores damaged in shopping centre blaze

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2005
NSW: Ten stores damaged in shopping centre blaze

Ten shops have been damaged after a fire swept through a south-western Sydney shopping
centre overnight.

Police and the fire brigade were called to the complex on Village Way in Wattle Grove
.. after reports of a fire in a video store about 2 am (AEDT).

They found a car had been driven through the front glass doors .. and the fire had
spread to the shopping centre roof.

Police say the blaze damaged 10 stores .. but was stopped before it reached a major supermarket.

No-one was injured.

Police are examining the scene .. to establish whether the fire was caused by arson
or followed an attempted ram-raid.

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