Police are investigating after a tobacco shop went up in flames in Glenroy at about 2.30am.

It’s understood a black BMW sedan rammed the door of a shop on Wheatsheaf Road before the premises was set alight.

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A nearby apartment building was evacuated.

A short time later police were called to a car fire on Shaftsbury Street in Coburg, where a black BMW was found alight.

Police are investigating if the incidents are linked.

Police investigating multiple arson attacks at a Moonee Ponds tobacco store