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Hürth (dpa / lnw) - Arsonists are said to have set fire to five parked cars in Hürth near Cologne on Friday night.

Four cars burned out completely, a fifth was badly damaged.

Nobody got hurt.

The cars had been parked in the parking lot of a company premises, the police reported on Friday.

Witnesses had alerted the fire department.

The facade of an adjacent office building was also damaged by the intense heat.

The situation at the fire scene suggests that the vehicles were deliberately set on fire, it said.

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