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Video: Arsonist sets unsuspecting man on fire

Officers have released the video of the attack where a person threw a Molotov cocktail at a man

By Jason Kandel and John Cadiz Klemack
NBCDFW

Police are searching for the man whose brazen Molotov cocktail attack outside a busy southern California market set his victim on fire, leaving him gravely burned.

They released surveillance video Sunday of the horrifying attack in the hopes of tracking down the person responsible for tossing the firebomb Friday night, NBC 4 Southern California reported.

The victim, in his 50s, was hospitalized with burns from the waist down after a man, believed to be in his late 20s, launched the lighted bottle at him he sat outside the busy El Paisano Ranch Market in Long Beach, said Long Beach Police Sgt. Aaron Eaton.

Full story: Police Release Video in Hunt for Calif. Molotov Cocktail Attacker