Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of setting fires at two clothing stores inside the city’s airport.
Police said on Tuesday night that they had received a report at 6.52pm from a security guard who discovered several pieces of burnt clothing in a store at the airport’s first terminal.
Staff at the store managed to extinguish the flames before firefighters arrived at the scene.
“After a preliminary investigation, the firefighters believe the cause of the fire was suspicious,” police said.
The force said that upon further investigation, officers believed the suspect had committed arson at a second clothing store in the airport.
It was not immediately clear whether the suspect was a visitor to Hong Kong, with police only describing him as a Nepalese man holding a foreign passport.
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