Six people are in a critical condition and 27 people were injured after a fire at a Commonwealth Bank branch in Springvale in Melbourne's southeast. Police said a man set himself alight after walking into the bank with a flammable accelerant, about 11.30am. Two men in their 20s, a man in his 60s, a man in his 70s, a woman in her 20s and another man were taken to the Alfred suffering serious burns. "He had with him some sort of accelerant, he walked in to the bank and he lit that accelerant which caused some sort of fire within the bank," she said. Despite reports from witnesses of a possible bomb, CFA operations officer Paul Carrigg confirmed a "flammable liquid" had caused the blaze.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 18, 2016 06:36 UTC