Petrol attack on Darwin insurance office
12 April 2012
An angry customer wheeled a shopping trolley full of petrol-filled jerry cans into a Darwin insurance office and lit fireworks, causing a blast and fire which injured 15 people, four of them critically.
A 44-year-old man gave himself up to police after the attack, which created panic in the city's main shopping complex. Police said he was unhappy about his insurance claim.
Witnesses described a large booming noise and sounds like gunshots going off, before seeing smoke billowing from the building and people stumbling out. Part of the city near the site of the attack was cordoned off as emergency crews arrived.
