The National Police is investigating a spate of fires around the El Ingenio commercial centre in Vélez-Málaga during the past six weeks, the last two being on Saturday.
On Saturday, a fire began in a palm grove behind the Torre del Mar football ground, about twenty metres from the shopping mall, and then a second occurred almost simultaneously in an avocado grove behind the Casa de la Viña.
The police have set up a special unit to try and identify and apprehend the culprits.