Customers, staff flee after arsonists target Melbourne cafe
Emergency services were called to a cafe on the Princes Highway in Noble Park shortly before midnight after two unknown offenders entered the business with fire accelerant.
A staff member and two customers were still inside the cafe when the pair entered, police said.
However, the customers and staff member managed to flee the cafe before the offenders used accelerant and set fire to the property.
They then fled the scene, police said..
When firefighters arrived, the building completely was engulfed in flames,.
'Crews worked quickly to battle the blaze, with the scene deemed under control at 12.13am,' a Fire Rescue Victoria spokesman told NewsWire.
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