Vandals last night lit a mattress which was dumped near two skips in Triq R. Caruana Dingli, San Ġwann, destroying the skips in the process, the locality’s council said.
It said the fire did not spread to the rest of the garden where the skips are located only thanks to the timely intervention of the Civil Protection Department.
The council said there was regular abuse of the 200 skips it had put up in San Ġwann with the dumping of bulky waste such as mattresses, construction material and chairs. This was despite the council’s twice weekly bulky waste collection service.
Vandals were also destroying road signs, the council said. It appealed for more patrols and for vandalism to be reported.