Brussels mosque arson kills one

Mosque completely burnt. Man inside died of suffocation, one injured.


Afp March 12, 2012

BRUSSELS: A man set fire to a mosque in Brussels on Monday, killing its 47-year-old imam and injuring another person, in an arson attack that destroyed a large part of the building, police told AFP.

Police officials at the scene "confirmed it was the imam" who died when a firebomb was thrown into the Shiite mosque, police spokeswoman Marie Verbeke said.

The imam, who succumbed to the fumes in the burnt-out place of worship, was with a second person, who was lightly injured, at the time of the attack.

"A suspect was taken into custody at the scene," Verbeke added.
A witness saw the suspect, a man, set fire to the building, Verbeke said, but no other details were immediately available.

Anderlecht Mayor Vincent Van Goidsenhoven said the suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the mosque, Belga news agency reported.
"The mosque was apparently almost entirely burned down," Verbeke said.

Belgian public broadcasters RTBF and a stream of Twitter users said that a group of at least 50 people had gathered outside the Shiite mosque.

Police said they received a call at 6:45 pm (1745 GMT) and the body was pulled out 45 minutes later.

The area around the mosque, near Belgium's main international railway hub, has a large immigrant Muslim population.

COMMENTS (25)

Mumbai Dude | 12 years ago | Reply

@Freeman: In Gujarat 1000 people died of whom 300 were Hindus. It was a riot not a genocide. In Kashmir, armed forces intervened only in 1990, when terrorists started coming in (and you know from where). Secondly, Kashmir's human rights record is far better than Balochistan's. I think you are crying crocodile tears over Kashmir. Secondly, Pakistan constitutionally discriminates against non-muslims by giving Islam a special privilege over other religions. Therefore, while minority population has increased in India, in Pak it has gone down.

Freeman | 12 years ago | Reply

@Mumbai Dude: Hindu killed 2000 Muslim in Gujrat and raped 100s of muslim women there. Nobody was arrested as Chief Minister Modi was directly involved in this Massacre.

Kashmire where india does not allow international Media is a land of killing where indian 6 million Terrorist army is killing young muslims and also raping muslim girls but on this on this forum Indian Hindu's extremeist are crying with Crocodiles tears.

Lots of Unknown Graves found in Kashmir but there is no action agaisnt Indian Terrorist army.

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