London [ UK ], October 5 (ANI): A mosque in Peacehaven , a quiet coastal town near Brighton in the United Kingdom, was deliberately set on fire on Saturday night in what police are treating as a hate crime. Two people were inside the building when the attack took place, but they managed to escape unharmed, CNN reported.

The suspected arson comes during a tense and politically charged summer in the UK , marked by a rise in both Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents. It follows just days after a deadly attack outside a synagogue in Manchester , where two Jewish worshippers were killed in a car ramming and stabbing attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.

Emergency services were called to the scene shortly before 10 pm after flames broke out at the entrance of the

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