Police: No evidence of arson in Jaffa fire that killed 2

Police say there is no evidence the fire thay killed a Jaffa couple early yesterday morning was started deliberately.

A 14-year-old boy was detained overnight for his suspected involvement in the blaze, but the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court ordered him released this morning.

The fire broke out just after 3:30 a.m. on the ground floor of a secondhand store in the Jaffa flea market. The victims, who had ten children between them, owned the store and lived above it.

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