Nashik: Some unidentified persons set afire four two-wheelers in the parking zone of a residential apartment in the Makmalabad area in the wee hours of Sunday.The Mhasrul police said the vehicles belonged to four flat owners of Siddhivinayak Apartment and were completedly damaged.“The vehicles were set afire sometime after Saturday midnight. There was a loud noise as the vehicles burnt, waking up the society residents. They came rushing down and saw the vehicles were on fire,” a police officer said.Thick black smoke had engulfed the entire parking zone of the society. Fortunately, the blaze did not spread to the flats. Some of the kitchens of the flats were located above the spot where the fire broke out.The vehicles belonged to Vijay Bhamre, Suresh More, Santosh More and Shekar Burkul. The police have lodged a case against unidentified persons.Fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the flames. Senior police officers, including deputy commissioner of police (Zone I) Laxmikant Patil, interacted with the local residents. A couple of months ago, some unidentified men had ransacked a few vehicles in the same residential society. “Though there’s a gate in that society, there’s no security guard or CCTV,” the officer said.Mhasrul police station senior inspector Subhash Chandra Deshmukh said the the police have started an investigation to nab the culprits. “We are probing the case from two angles. Our initial feedback is that there is an ongoing feud between some apartment owners. We are investigating whether the incident is linked to that feud or not,” he added.Deshmukh said there is a slum behind the society. The police were probing whether the attack was the handiwork of anybody living in the slum.

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