Four teenagers arrested over fire at Islamic boarding school
Source: The Guardian
Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire at an Islamic boarding school on the outskirts of London. The four suspects – two aged 17 and two aged 18 – were detained on Sunday night on suspicion of arson at the Darul Uloom school in Chislehurst. The blaze is being treated as suspicious and the pair remain in custody at a south London police station.
The arrests came as the Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, revealed that police had stepped up security at other potential targets around the capital, with uniformed officers on guard at key sites amid fears of reprisals after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. There have been a string of attacks since the soldier was hacked to death in south-east London on 22 May in a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.
The emergency services were called to the school as pupils and teachers slept on Saturday night, and two boys were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire broke out but did not need hospital treatment. The emergency services were called to the school at about 23.50pm and 128 pupils and staff were evacuated.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze soon after and pupils were able to go back into the school the following morning. There was minor damage to the £3,000-a-year school.
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