Terrifying moment customer set Brazilian store on fire after owner refused to accept return of sandals
A woman has been arrested in Brazil after setting fire to a market because the owner wouldn't allow her to return a pair of sandals she bought.
The 39-year-old suspect visited the store in the central city of Dianopolis on Sunday evening and was caught on camera dumping a flammable liquid into a bin where waste was stored.
The woman poured liquid down the side of the building and then walked back to the metal trash container and set the plastic container on fire.
She nearly got burned by the bus as the flames spread over it and then threw it in the trash as the fire spread.
A 39-year-old woman was caught on camera in Brazil setting fire to a garbage bin on Sunday evening before the flames engulfed a shop next door
Police said the woman was angry with a market owner who refused to give her back the sandals she had bought. She was arrested on Monday
The fire destroyed 70 percent of the market, fire officials said
A separate video showed the store owner trying to enter the market to retrieve his personal belongings, but a firefighter dragged him away just seconds after a huge fireball burst toward the street.
Fire officials said the fire spread throughout the building and destroyed nearly 70 percent of the facility, including furniture and merchandise, according to Brazilian news channel G1.
Firefighters battled the raging blaze for almost two hours as it spread to a bakery and butcher's shop, but prevented the blaze from spreading to a neighboring home.
The woman poured liquid down the side of the building and then walked back to the metal trash container and set the plastic container on fire
She almost got burned by the bus as the flames spread over it and then threw it in the trash as the fire spread
The woman, whose name has not been released, was identified after military police reviewed the security camera and arrested within hours on Monday.
The arson incident comes just two weeks after André Chapeta died from burns suffered on 92 percent of his body after his wife, Ana Maria Paizaõ, set him on fire in her store in Rio de Janeiro.
A surveillance camera showed Paixaõ walking past the counter and appearing to open a bottle before pouring a flammable liquid on his body.
She then flicked a lighter and set it on fire.
Chapeta was hospitalized for four days before succumbing to the injuries.