Police are investigating whether a dangerous social media trend involving teenagers may have led to a heritage-listed building being destroyed by a huge blaze last week.
A"deodorant bomb" theory has emerged in the ongoing investigation of the"once-in-a-decade" blaze at a heritage-listed Sydney building last week.
New South Wales Police had revealed four teenage boys, aged 12 and 13, had come forward in the hours and days following the blaze and have been questioned. "Apparently deodorant bombs are a bit of a thing. The deodorant bomb is dangerous enough, but when you add a flame to it, you can only imagine the result."
One of the teens who was inside the abandoned heritage-listed building allegedly confided in a friend saying he made a"deodorant bomb". Picture: Fire and Rescue NSW "One of the investigators familiar with the case told me they're actually good kids, good kids that put themselves in a really bad situation," he said.The parents have expressed their anger and disappointment at the teens involved, one mother whose child attended the same school, told Fordham.One British schoolboy was left permanently blind in one eye after the stunt.
A 60-tonne excavator was brought in to Surry Hills on Tuesday morning to begin demolishing the double-brick building which had been unstable. Picture: Justin Lloyd.
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