UK mosque set on fire in suspected hate crime, two people inside escaped unharmed

London [UK], October 5, 2025 (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

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