Returning home from mosque, a Muslim man set on fire in England

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – A second elderly Muslim man has been attacked and set on fire as he walked home from the mosque in Birmingham on Monday night.

Police say he was approached by a man who spoke to him briefly before spraying an “unknown substance” on his jacket and setting it on fire.

The man, who was in his 70s, was taken to hospital with burns to his face and serious injuries which were not life threatening.

A man has been arrested. Counter terrorist police are involved because of the similarities with an incident in Ealing three weeks ago, when an 82-year-old Muslim man was doused in petrol and set alight.