Woman set on fire in ‘random attack’ on TTC bus in Toronto

One person is in custody after a woman was set on fire while on a TTC bus Friday afternoon in what police are calling a “random attack.”

Police say they were originally called to Kipling Station, near Kipling Avenue and Dundas Street, around 12:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a man assaulting a woman nearby.

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22 comments

  1. how can they call it a random attack without investigation into personal lives. is there not a honor thing with some religions?

  2. Sometimes I say living in Edmonton is pretty boring but seeing news like this from Toronto and Vancouver make me pretty comfy here

    1. The only time you should be scared about living in Edmonton is if giant robots start fighting in the middle of the city, according to ‘Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans’.

  3. if they have 3rd degree burns isn’t it assumed that they also have 2nd and 1st degree?

  4. I hope whoever did this rots in prison, never to step out of a cell barely big enough to breath.

  5. It must have been planned, not all liquids are flammable, he was looking for a victim.

  6. It must have been planned, not all liquids are flammable, he was looking for a victim.

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