27 Dec, 2023 @ 10:02
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WATCH: Huge fire tears through business in Marbella’s Puerto Banus after ‘becoming engulfed in flames at 4am’

THIS is the moment a business in Marbella was seen engulfed by flames in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

In video footage shared online, the inferno can be seen tearing through the building in the Cristamar centre, in the upmarket resort of Puerto Banus.

According to the social media user who shared the clip, the flames were first seen at around 4am.

It is not yet known what caused the fire or which business was being targeted.

It comes just months after the same shopping centre was the scene of a shooting in the summer.

Footage shared in July showed several young men in swimming shorts running for cover before a masked man carrying an automatic weapon approached and fired shots, before running from view.

He then escaped in a BMW before dumping it and setting it ablaze – causing a forest fire in the process that required multiple aircraft to put it out.

There is no suggestion that the shooting in July and the fire on Wednesday morning are linked.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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