Algerian set ablaze mayor on construction's dispute
01.03.2017 - 12:00
The 34-year-old man waited for his victim outside a government building A man in Algeria has set the head of his municipality ablaze following a legal dispute over house expansion.
The 34-year-old man waited for his victim outside a government building, before spilling gasoline on his body and setting him on fire using a lighter.
The victim has been taken to hospital and remains in critical condition.
The dispute erupted when the assailant was rejected a request to construct expansions to his house in the Algerian municipality of Sidi Sliman (35 kilometers west of the capital Algiers).
Source: Al Arabiya