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Sweden: Mosque catches fire with 20 Muslims inside

Mosque catches fire with 20 people inside

Associated Press | December 26, 2014 3:59 PM ET

Firemen work outside a still smoking cellar mosque in Eskilstuna, Sweden on Thursday. Five of the twenty at prayer inside were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke when a burning object was hurled through a window, setting fire to the building in the early afternoon.

Pontus Stenberg / Associated PressFiremen work outside a still smoking cellar mosque in Eskilstuna, Sweden on Thursday. Five of the twenty at prayer inside were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke when a burning object was hurled through a window, setting fire to the building in the early afternoon
HELSINKI — Swedish police say a suspected arson attack at one mosque has injured at least five people while a second mosque in the same town has been vandalized.

Police said Friday the two attacks in the central town of Eskilstuna took place within hours of each other Thursday and early Friday.

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Pontus Stenberg / AFP / Getty ImagesPeople leave flowers and other messages of good will at the scene of a destroyed mosque the day after an arson attack on Friday in Eskilstuna, central Sweden.

They said 20 people were inside the mosque when the blaze broke out. Two of the injured were treated for smoke inhalation, while the others had minor injuries.

Police spokesman Lars Franzell says a witness had seen someone throwing an object through the mosque’s window.

Franzell also says an unidentified passer-by had also broken a window of another mosque and damaged nearby cars.

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Pontus Stenberg / AFP / Getty ImagesThe scene of a destroyed mosque on Friday, the day after an arson attack in central Sweden.

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