Witnessing the tragic fire in Bohumín in the Karviná region, in which 11 people died, including three children, told reporters that the police detained one man on the spot. He claimed to have started the fire on purpose. The woman described burning people jumping out of the windows. Police spokesman Tomáš Kužel subsequently confirmed to reporters that the police had detained one person.
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The fire in Bohumín as recorded by the Facebook user Tomas Minarcin | Video: Facebook / Tomas Minarcin
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“It’s a terrible tragedy and I don’t want anyone to experience it. I saw five people jump out of the window,” said Karin Šípková, who lives on the third floor of a house where it was on fire. She said she was running away with her little grandson.
The witness said she called the fire department and the police arrived at the scene in about two minutes. “They arrested the master and asked him if he had set it on fire, and he said to them completely calm: ‘Yes, he set it on fire,'” Šípková said. According to her, the man did not say a specific reason.
I started shouting at him that people lived here and he would just set fire to the house, “the woman said. According to her, the police took the man in handcuffs to the car.
“It is rumored here that it was probably some family disagreement, that he had an argument with them, and thus he allegedly set it on fire,” Šípková added. She added that the house was not a problem.
There were still a number of fire and police cars at the scene of the accident around 9 p.m. The place was surrounded by tape. The local people who watched the investigation are shocked. They mostly talked about the tragedy and speculated about what had happened on the spot.
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