Manchester mosque set on fire

    Photo Credit - Manchester Evening News

    Police are asking for any witnesses to come forward after a mosque in Greater Manchester was set on fire hours after the terror attack in the city on Monday night, 22 May.

    CCTV footage has caught a man, at around 3am that night, setting fire to the front door of a mosque on Villa Road in Oldham.

    The footage shows a man leaving a bottle full of fluid near to the building before returning and setting it alight.

    No one was hurt in the attack.

    The suspect is a white man, wearing light coloured trousers and a light padded jacket. He was carrying a bottle of accelerant and had a BMX bike with him.

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