ARSON

NIH ARIKA A ND LOK E SH.

BY BHAVYA,
WHAT IS ARSON?

• THE CRIMINAL ACT OF DELIBERATELY SETTING FIRE TO PROPERTY OR

• ARSON IS A CRIME OF INTENTIONALLY, DELIBERATELY AND MALICIOUSLY
SETTING FIRE TO BUILDINGS, WILDLAND AREAS, ABANDONED HOMES,
VEHICLES OR OTHER PROPERTY WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE DAMAGE.
2000 DHARMAPURI BUS BURNING
• OCCURRENCE: FEBRUARY 2, 2000 AT ILAKIYAMPATTI, ON THE
OUTSKIRTS OF DHARMAPURI IN TAMIL NADU, INDIA.

• AFFECTED: THREE GIRLS WERE BURNT, AND 16 OTHERS WERE

INJURED.

• INCIDENT: SEVENTY STUDENTS FROM THE TAMIL NADU

AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE, WERE RETURNING FROM
A STUDY TOUR ON TWO BUSES. THEY WERE STOPPED BY AIADMK
MEN AND THEY THREW A PETROL BOMB, SETTING FIRE TO A BUS
BEFORE ALL OF THE STUDENTS COULD HAVE HAD GOT OUT.
TULSI BAKERY CASE

OCCURRENCE: A SMALL OUTLET IN THE HANUMAN TEKRI AREA IN VADODARA, 

INDIA, ON MARCH 1, 2002.
AFFECTED: 14 DEATHS (11 MUSLIMS INCLUDING FAMILY MEMBERS AND 3 HINDU
EMPLOYEES OF THE BAKERY)
INCIDENT: THE BEST BAKERY, A SMALL OUTLET IN THE HANUMAN TEKRI AREA OF
VADODARA, WAS ATTACKED BY A MOB, WHICH BURNED DOWN THE BAKERY,
KILLING 14 PEOPLE. THIS ATTACK WAS PART OF THE 2002 GUJARAT RIOTS. A
LARGE MOB SURROUNDED THE BAKERY IN THE EVENING, AROUND 8 PM. THEY
FIRST STOLE ALL THE GOODS THAT WERE KEPT IN THE BAKERY INCLUDING
SACKS OF FLOUR. THEREAFTER THEY SET FIRE TO THE BAKERY AND THE PEOPLE
INSIDE.
XIAMEN BUS FIRE
• OCCURRENCE: IN XIAMEN, FUJIAN PROVINCE, CHINA.
• AFFECTED: 47 PEOPLE DIED AND 34 WERE INJURED.
• INCIDENT: A BUS OPERATING FOR THE XIAMEN BRT CAUGHT FIRE
AND EXPLODED ON AN ELEVATED LANE NEAR THE JINSHAN STOP; 47
PEOPLE DIED AND 34 WERE INJURED.
MYOJO 56 BUILDING FIRE
• OCCURRENCE: 01:00 LOCAL TIME ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2001 IN THE
MYOJO 56 BUILDING, LOCATED IN THE KABUKICHO SECTION OF
SHINJUKU, TOKYO, JAPAN.

• AFFECTED: 44 PEOPLE DIED (32 MEN AND 12 WOMEN).

• INCIDENT: THE FIRE, THE FIFTH-DEADLIEST IN POST-WAR JAPANESE
HISTORY, CLAIMED 44 LIVES AND BURNED FOR FIVE HOURS BEFORE
BEING EXTINGUISHED.
GODHRA TRAIN BURNING
• OCCURRENCE: ON THE MORNING OF 27 FEBRUARY 2002 NSIDE THE
SABARMATI EXPRESS TRAIN NEAR THE GODHRA RAILWAY STATION
IN THE INDIAN STATE OF GUJARAT.

• AFFECTED: 59 PEOPLE DIED.

• INCIDENT: THE VICTIMS INCLUDED HINDU PILGRIMS WHO WERE
RETURNING FROM THE CITY OF AYODHYA AFTER A RELIGIOUS
CEREMONY AT THE DISPUTED BABRI MASJID SITE WHICH THEN WAS
BURNT.
CINEMA REX FIRE
• OCCURRENCE: ON 19 AUGUST 1978, THE CINEMA REX IN ABADAN,
IRAN.

• AFFECTED: KILLING AT LEAST 420 INDIVIDUALS.

• INCIDENT: ON 19 AUGUST 1978, THE CINEMA REX IN ABADAN, IRAN,
WAS SET ABLAZE, KILLING AT LEAST 420 INDIVIDUALS,THE EVENT
STARTED WHEN MEN BARRED THE DOORS AND DOUSED THE PLACE
WITH GASOLINE BEFORE SETTING IT ALIGHT.