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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The police have arrested a man suspected of causing a fire that destroyed five homes, including his own, at the Kuang Low-Cost Housing Scheme in Sungai Buloh yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — An unemployed man was sentenced to six years in prison by the Sessions Court today after pleading guilty to torching a woman's car two months ago.

KUANTAN, March 30 — A suspected Molotov cocktail was thrown at another branch of the KK Mart convenience store chain, which caused a small fire in front of its entrance early this morning.

PUTRAJAYA, March 23 — The Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra), via the Consulate-General of Malaysia in Songkhla, is closely monitoring events following a spate of arson attacks in the southern Thailand provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat in the early hours of yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — The police have detained one of the two foreign men wanted since yesterday for allegedly splashing petrol and setting a foreign woman on fire at the Kampung Cheras Baru playground on Saturday (March 9).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — The police are tracking two foreign men who allegedly poured petrol onto a foreign woman and set her alight in the Kampung Cheras Baru playground at 10.30pm on Saturday (March 9).

PETALING JAYA, Feb 19 — A food rider pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to committing mischief by fire to an auxiliary police car at a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station last week.

IPOH, Jan 21 — Initial findings show that petrol was the cause of the arson at the residence of Beruas Member of Parliament Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham in Taman Semarak Jaya, Ayer Tawar, on Jan 10.

IPOH, Jan 16 — The remand order for the man arrested on suspicion of committing arson at the residence of Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham in Ayer Tawar on January 10 has been extended by another day until tomorrow.

IPOH, Jan 14 — The man who was arrested on suspicion of committing arson at the residence of Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham tested negative for drugs.

IPOH, Jan 13 — The man detained in Shah Alam yesterday for suspected arson at the residence of Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham is not a member of any political party, said Perak police chief Datuk Seri Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri.

IPOH, Jan 12 — The police detained a man to help in the investigation into an arson case at the residence of Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham in Taman Semarak Jaya, Ayer Tawar, early Wednesday (January 10) morning.

SEREMBAN, Dec 20 — Police are currently tracking down a group of individuals suspected of setting fire to a vape shop in Taman Ria, Port Dickson, as seen in a viral video on X (formerly known as Twitter).

IPOH, Nov 27 — Police believe the arrest of two suspects involved in an arson case at Taman Badrishah in Lahat here yesterday, would help solve four cases of mischief involving fire and properties defiled with paint around Ipoh.

KUALA SELANGOR, Oct 25 — Two teenagers were sentenced to community service of washing toilets for 100 hours over six months by the Magistrate’s Court today for causing mischief by fire involving a public toilet in Bandar Puncak Alam last year.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 11 — The Court of Appeal today upheld the decision of a High Court in ordering a 22-year-old man (PKK1) to be detained at the pleasure of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, after finding him guilty of the murder of 23 people in a fire at Pusat Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah Tahfiz in 2017.