Police are investigating a suspected Mount Gambier car fire overnight, which appears to be a targeted attack on a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week.
Important points:
- A car was set on fire in the driveway of a house in Mount Gambier
- According to the police, it is a targeted attack
- At the time of the fire, no one was home and there were no injuries
After reports of a burning vehicle, rescue workers were called to the residential street shortly before 10 p.m. on Tuesday.
A Holden limousine had been set alight in the driveway and the flames threatened to spread to the house.
The fire brigade put out the fire that destroyed the car and caused surface damage to the building.
At the time of the fire, no one was home and no casualties were reported.
The car belonged to the woman who recently tested positive for COVID-19. (
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SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said he understood that the car belonged to the woman who tested positive for COVID-19.
“People shouldn’t assume they know what’s going on,” he said.
“It’s completely unnecessary, it’s unjustified. They have committed a serious crime and if we discover them we will deal with them appropriately.
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“I’m just asking people to show tolerance. We don’t know exactly what’s going on. Let’s get to the bottom of this and we’ll get this information out to the community as soon as possible.”
Crime scene investigators and local investigators were at the scene overnight and will continue the investigation.
Mount Gambier was plunged into a week of severe disabilities after the woman tested positive for COVID-19.
She is currently in hotel quarantine in Adelaide with her children.
Authorities persecute women’s movements
The woman tested positive for COVID-19 in Mount Gambier after being tested on October 1 on her return from Victoria.
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Authorities said the woman visited her family in Casterton within the SA border bubble but has since pieced together the woman’s movements, including whether she had traveled to Melbourne.
So far, an exposure site for the SipnSave has been listed at the South Eastern Hotel in Mount Gambier on Friday October 1st.
The woman was initially believed to only go to Casterton, but yesterday Mr Stevens said the police “did not have enough clarity about the person’s movements to be certain” that they had not been anywhere else in Victoria.
Restrictions have been put in place on Mount Gambier City, the Wattle Range Council and the District Council of Grant, and the border bubble has been reduced from 70 kilometers to 30 kilometers on the Victorian side and 40 kilometers on the South Australian side.
So far, none of the woman’s close contacts have tested positive.
The full list of exposure sites in South Australia can be found below.
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