BOSTON -- Police in East Boston are searching for the person who lit a cat on fire and threw it into a home.
Officials said that at about 7:15 a.m. someone wrapped the animal in a rag, lit it on fire and tossed it through the first-floor window of a triple-decker home.
The occupant was not home at the time, according to the Boston Fire Department. The cat died, but no residents of the building were injured.
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