An elementary school girl who set fire to clothes and blankets at a Tokyo supermarket after watching a television program showing fires has been taken into custody and reported to a child consultation center, police said.
Police took the 12-year-old girl into custody after she admitted starting fires at an Ito-Yokado supermarket in the Tokyo city of Akishma.
When questioned by police, she reportedly told officers she had started the fire after seeing blazes break out at the Don Quijote discount retail chain in Saitama Prefecture.
"I saw the Don Quijote fires on TV, and I wondered what kind of disturbance it would cause if I lit a fire," she was quoted as saying.
Police took the 12-year-old girl into custody after she admitted starting fires at an Ito-Yokado supermarket in the Tokyo city of Akishma.
When questioned by police, she reportedly told officers she had started the fire after seeing blazes break out at the Don Quijote discount retail chain in Saitama Prefecture.
"I saw the Don Quijote fires on TV, and I wondered what kind of disturbance it would cause if I lit a fire," she was quoted as saying.
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