HOMELESS PAIR SET AFIRE

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- A homeless man and woman were set afire by five youths who doused them and another man with flammable liquid as they slept in a park, police said.

Police on patrol in Brooklyn's Prospect Park section discovered the two ablaze after spotting what they thought was a trash fire, said Sgt. John Venetucci, a police spokesman.

The woman was hospitalized with burns; the man was treated and released. Police said no arrests had been made.

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