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Monday, September 3, 2018
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.