Minneapolis, MN
2 fires at Minneapolis mosques under investigation
MPD seems for mosque arson suspect
The Minneapolis Police Division has launched photographs of an individual it believed to be concerned in a fireplace at a mosque this week.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – As firefighters had been pulling down a fireplace at a Minneapolis mosque Monday night time, police had been asking for the general public’s assist as they examine a separate fireplace at one other mosque the day earlier than.
Crews had been known as out to the Masjid Al Rahma off Bloomington Avenue round 7 p.m. Monday night time for the fireplace. On the mosques, crews knocked down a small fireplace in a room on the third flooring. Folks on the second flooring wanted to be evacuated from the constructing as crews labored.
The fireplace didn’t unfold to the construction. That fireside is at the moment beneath investigation.
As crews had been battling that fireplace Monday night time, Minneapolis police introduced they had been trying to query a person linked to a separate mosque fireplace on Sunday.
Within the Sunday fireplace, crews responded to the Masjid Omar Islamic Heart off East twenty fourth Road for the report of a fireplace set. When firefighters arrived, they discovered a small fireplace within the mosque’s lavatory had been put out earlier than crews arrived.
In a Fb put up, officers launched photographs of the individual suspected of setting the fireplace. Police are asking anybody with data on the individual’s identification to name 911.
That individual can also be suspected of inflicting earlier harm to the mosque.
The 2 mosques are each situated within the Phillips neighborhood, a couple of block aside. Nevertheless, it is necessary to notice that the reason for Monday’s fireplace will not be but identified. It is unclear if that fireplace is believed to be arson.