Const. Tania Visintin says the attack on the woman was shocking because it targeted a ‘vulnerable member’ of the community
Police in Vancouver say a woman they describe as “vulnerable” has serious burns after a man poured a flammable liquid on her and set it on fire.The statement says the woman, who’s in her 50s, was sitting on a sidewalk in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood when a man in his 30s approached, poured the liquid on her head and lit it.Police are also investigating a second incident at about the same time as the woman was attacked, where a man’s homemade sleeping structure was set ablaze.
Police say a man reports he was sleeping in an alley not far from the first fire when someone set the structure on fire, but the man was able to put out the flames himself and was not hurt.“However, it is still very early in the investigation, so we are not ruling anything out,” Visintin says in the release.
The attack on the woman was shocking, says Visintin, because it targeted a “vulnerable member” of the community.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
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