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Arsonists set fire to Huntingdon building site

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Hywel Barrett

Published: 8:30 AM October 15, 2012    Updated: 4:23 PM November 1, 2020

ARSONISTS set fire to roof trusses on a building site in Huntingdon yesterday (Sunday).

Firefighters from Huntingdon were called to a building fire on Kings Ripton Road just before 7.30pm.

They arrived to find roof trusses alight on the new building site. The crews had extinguished the fire by 9pm.

A fire service spokesman said the cause of fire was believed to be deliberate.

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