Hidden cameras catch Italian farmer starting fire

A man has been arrested after hidden cameras caught him deliberately starting a fire in countryside near the town of Montesarchio in southern Italy.

The suspect - a local farmer aged 50 - was caught on film on Thursday, and detained by the Carabinieri Forestry Corps later the same day.

The cameras were positioned following scientific analysis of the triggering points of recent fires in the Sannio Valley in the region of Campania.

Fires are still raging in northern Sardinia, where firefighters from the city of Sassari were busy trying to extinguish a large blaze that grew in the area of Aglientu-Trinità.

Several Canadair aerial firefighting planes were involved in controlling the conflagration.

(Source: AP)

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