Man gets 8.5 years for setting apartment building on fire

A court in Prague on Wednesday sentenced a 31-year-old man to 8.5 years in prison for setting a high-rise apartment building on fire. The court said that in February 2012, the man set fire to the door of an apartment where his ex-girlfriend was staying with three children. The fire destroyed the flat; the woman with the children was rescued by fire fighters while 25 inhabitants of the building were also evacuated.