A CHINESE bazaar owner in the southern city of Huelva is offering a €5,000 reward for anyone who can trace the arsonists who destroyed his shop in the Santa Marta neighbourhood on Tuesday.
Xoan Li, one of an extended family who owns several Chinese bazaars in Huelva city, says he believes the culprits are probably 'two or three kids'.
“Anyone who can bring us the offenders – even just one of them – will be rewarded,” the proprietor of the Dong Hai Hyper Bazaar in the La Orden area of town wrote on Facebook.
Authorities have not confirmed the cause of the blaze, which has left an entire apartment block uninhabitable, but witnesses believe it was started deliberately.
Some 36 families had to be evacuated just before 17.00 on Tuesday and have all had to find temporary accommodation as city council engineers say their block is now structurally unsound.
It took firefighters until 21.15 to put out the flames.
Nobody was hurt, but the material damage caused is said to be extensive.
