Cops quiz students in arson probe

Students attending classes in dentistry, pharmacology and medicine were questioned by police officers yesterday, as a probe into the fire at a UWI office at the EWMSC continued.

Fire officers returned to the scene of a fire which broke out at 8.43 am on Sunday at Building 39, Eric Williams Medical Science Complex which houses a UWI office. Fire officers told Newsday that they are convinced that the fire was deliberately set. A disgruntled student is believed to have deliberately set the fire to destroy records at the UWI office which deals with UWI students rental accomodation. Police officers who are also investigating the arson said that they have received reports that some students in medicine, veterinary medicine, phamacology and dentistry have not been paying rent and the fire was set to destroy records. Newsday learned that although the office was firebombed some records were not destroyed in the fire.