(ANSA) - CAIRO, MARCH 13 - A fire broke out in Malindi, a seaside resort on the Kenyan coast, today damaging an unspecified number of villas and residences.
This is what emerges from a report published by the site "malindikenya.net".
"The portal of the Italians in Kenya" states that it was "the Silversand area, just after the Vasco Da Gama monument that begins the residential and holiday area of Casuarina, around one in the afternoon".
"According to the first reconstructions, the flames would have started" from a "large residence by the sea, which houses a hundred apartments owned by Italians but also" by "many Indians and local Arabs and Kenyans. Some of them were in the swimming pool or in their verandas at the moment when they recounted the flames and tried to save their belongings, piling them on the beach and guarding so that no one stole them, "the site reports.
"The police are already investigating the nature of the fire", he added, noting that "intentions are not ruled out, even if" some testimonies indicate "a defective gas cylinder".
The flames "have affected a" structure that is part of the complex once called 'Key Group' and now divided into different groups of cottages and villas ", Malindikenya points out, adding that" Key Park 1 would appear to be the structure that has suffered the most damage, while Coral Key , a former resort now used as a residence with private homes, would not have reported major damage.
Flames also in Key Park 2, on the street side ". In the Casuarina area in April two years ago a fire sent" dozens of Italian villas to fire (...), "recalls the site.
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