Suspect arrested after allegedly setting fires, driving into shops in Germany 

Berlin — 

A antheral has been arrested aft allegedly mounting 2 fires successful the occidental German metropolis of Essen that near 30 radical injured and driving a van into 2 shops, authorities said Sunday.

Emergency services were alerted to 2 fires successful residential buildings successful speedy succession soon aft 5 p.m. Saturday, constabulary said. The injured radical included 8 children who were earnestly hurt, and 2 of them were successful a life-threatening information aft inhaling smoke.

Shortly aft the fires broke out, a van drove into 2 shops successful the city, causing harm to spot but nary injuries. The fishy past allegedly threatened radical with weapons, but respective men managed to propulsion him backmost with shovels and poles and clasp him until constabulary arrived.

Police said the fishy was a 41-year-old Essen nonmigratory with Syrian citizenship. They said the man's motive appeared to beryllium that his woman had near him, and helium targeted houses and shops wherever radical who supported her lived.

The occurrence work said that, erstwhile it arrived astatine the country of the archetypal blaze, fume was billowing from the entranceway of the gathering and radical were calling for assistance from windows. Neighbors had enactment up ladders to assistance radical escape, but they weren't agelong capable to scope the precocious floors.

The fishy hasn't commented truthful acold connected what happened Saturday but was antecedently known to authorities for threats and harm to property, constabulary said. Prosecutors were seeking to person him kept successful custody connected suspicion of arson and attempted murder.