March 25 (UPI) -- British counter-terrorism police made two arrests early Wednesday in connection with an arson attack that destroyed four Jewish volunteer ambulances parked outside a synagogue in London.
The men, aged 47 and 45, were arrested in dawn raids at addresses in northwest London and central London on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and taken to a London police station, where they are being held in custody, the Metropolitan Police said in a news release.
The Met said it was continuing to work to identify another suspect, one of three captured on CCTV pouring accelerant onto the ambulances in the Golders Green area of north London before igniting it in the early hours of Monday.
The fires caused oxygen cylinders inside the vehicles to explode, shattering windows in nearby residential properties and forcing the evacuation of at least 34 people, but no one was injured.
Calling it an "appalling attack," Commander Helen Flanagan, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said officers had been working the case around the clock.
