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At least three businesses were seriously damaged in major blazes in Marbella in the early hours of Wednesday this week. National Police are investigating the causes of the fires as one of the affected premises was shot at earlier this year by an attacker using a submachine gun.
In these latest incidents emergency services started to receive calls at around 4.15am on Wednesday after the first fire started in a restaurant on the outside of the Cristamar shopping centre in Puerto Banús.
Emergency operators quickly alerted the fire brigade, as well as the Local Police and National Police forces but, despite the large deployment, the flames completely engulfed the businesses. No injuries were reported inside any of the premises.
According to sources, the flames quickly spread along the building's façade and affected other neighbouring shop units, leaving two of them completely gutted, while others suffered partial damage.
That was not the only shock in Marbella in the early hours of the same morning. Just two hours later, at around 6.30am, the emergency call operators were alerted to another fire in an establishment in Avenida Manolete, in the Nueva Andalucía area, close to the Puerto Banús bullring. Despite the damage to the premises, no injuries were reported on that occasion either.
According to sources consulted by SUR, everything indicates that the fires could be related to a settling of scores between gangs operating on the Costa del Sol.
The first of the fires hit the same restaurant that was shot at several times earlier this year, causing panic among passers-by.
It happened on 18 July, when suspects in a black BMW vehicle approached the restaurant and at least one of them got out carrying a submachine gun and fired several shots. After fleeing the scene, the vehicle was later found abandoned and ablaze in the Benavolá area of the town.
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