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28/08/2013
Anarchist Group Claim Responsibility For Police Centre Fire
Police are investigation claims made online by an anarchist group saying that they were responsible for a fire at a new police firearms training centre in Somerset.
A group calling itself Angry Foxes Cell posted on the Bristol Indymedia website that its members had targeted the under construction site at the Black Rock centre in Portishead.
The fire was spotted by a passing officer on Tuesday.
The group claim that on August 26 members "used accelerant to burn the major electrical cables" leaving the site with flames licking high".
Firefigthers are expected to remain at the site for serveral. Avon and Somerset Police are investigating the claims.
(MH/CD)
A group calling itself Angry Foxes Cell posted on the Bristol Indymedia website that its members had targeted the under construction site at the Black Rock centre in Portishead.
The fire was spotted by a passing officer on Tuesday.
The group claim that on August 26 members "used accelerant to burn the major electrical cables" leaving the site with flames licking high".
Firefigthers are expected to remain at the site for serveral. Avon and Somerset Police are investigating the claims.
(MH/CD)
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