News24 reports that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the fire that damaged 12 train carriages at Cape Town station on Sunday.  

"Surveillance footage was used to identify the suspect," said Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut, who added that the 30-year-old resident of Khayelitsha was detained by police after he had been apprehended by Prasa officials.  The suspect will appear in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court once he has been charged.  Traut added that the possibility of more arrests had not been ruled out.  The cost of rolling stock repairs in respect of the train carriages destroyed in the blaze has been estimated at R33m.  Approximately 300 metres of centenary and contact wires, which are critical to automate train control, were also damaged.

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