{"id":79655,"date":"2026-08-25T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79655\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:54:16","slug":"melbourne-convenience-store-and-milk-bar-rammed-set-on-fire-in-arson-attack-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79655\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne convenience store and milk bar rammed, set on fire in arson attack spree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Two stores in a Melbourne suburb have been rammed and set alight by the same car in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A convenience store on Willaton Street in St Albans and a milk bar on Maplewood Road in King\u2019s Park were both struck within 10 minutes of each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said the hits left \u201csignificant structural damage\u201d to the Melbourne<\/a> stores before they were set alight.<\/p>\n

A vehicle was first seen reversing into the convenience store just after 2am before it was set alight, sustaining smoke and fire damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Witnesses told police they saw two vehicles drive away from the scene.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, the same offenders reversed a black Toyota Kruger into a milk bar on Maplewood Road in Kings Park, a neighbouring suburb.<\/p>\n

Police said the inside of the store was doused with accelerant before it was set alight.<\/p>\n

Officers were told there was an explosion of flames before the\u00a0fire petered out.<\/p>\n

Police believe the vehicle was stolen from Kings Park on Sunday and had stolen number plates on it.<\/p>\n

It was left at the scene and the offenders are believed to have fled in another vehicle described as a light-coloured 4WD.<\/p>\n

Detectives will now investigate the two scenes and explore the possibility of links to any other recent fires.<\/p>\n

Melbourne has seen a huge uptick in attacks on stores across the city, with frequent reports of shopfronts being rammed into by cars and set alight.<\/p>\n

Some of the attacks have targeted nightlife venues, tobacco shops<\/a>, restaurants, convenience stores and cafes.<\/p>\n

Any witnesses or people with dashcam footage of the latest incidents have being asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Two stores in a Melbourne suburb have been rammed and set alight by the same car in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[123197,39232,56186,123190,53681,123178,123188,123180,123172,123187,42256,111436,51161,54842,109161,123182,2034,123193,847,26366,2331,123177,312,36699,39649,844,43596,123195,123191,109510,34736,1525,41832,123194,260,123181,123173,36526,123176,4060,25531,12696,34917,1047,248,86190,123183,42774,123174,6043,19816,123198,43552,36676,123185,40475,37262,123189,88743,46814,123196,53514,48851,123179,123184,37168,54267,123175,42251,8506,36985,123186,123171,78034,123192,33524],"class_list":["post-79655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-s-park","tag-10-minutes","tag-2am","tag-a-black-toyota-kruger","tag-a-convenience-store","tag-a-huge-uptick","tag-a-light-coloured-4wd","tag-a-melbourne-suburb","tag-a-milk-bar","tag-a-neighbouring-suburb","tag-a-vehicle","tag-accelerant","tag-alight","tag-an-explosion","tag-another-vehicle","tag-any-other-recent-fires","tag-arson","tag-arson-attack-spree","tag-arson-attacks","tag-attacks","tag-cars","tag-convenience-stores-and-cafes","tag-crime","tag-detectives","tag-each-other","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-frequent-reports","tag-general-news-melbourne","tag-google-maps","tag-king","tag-kings-park","tag-links","tag-maplewood-road","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-convenience-store","tag-milk-bar","tag-morning","tag-nightlife-venues","tag-number-plates","tag-officers","tag-park","tag-picture","tag-police","tag-restaurants","tag-shopfronts","tag-significant-structural-damage","tag-snapp-breaking","tag-st-albans","tag-stores","tag-sunday","tag-sustaining-smoke-and-fire-damage","tag-the-attacks","tag-the-city","tag-the-convenience-store","tag-the-early-hours","tag-the-fire","tag-the-hits","tag-the-incidents","tag-the-inside","tag-the-melbourne-stores","tag-the-offenders","tag-the-possibility","tag-the-same-car","tag-the-same-offenders","tag-the-scene","tag-the-store","tag-the-two-scenes","tag-the-vehicle","tag-tobacco-shops","tag-tuesday","tag-two-melbourne-shops","tag-two-stores","tag-two-vehicles","tag-willaton-street","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}