
A strong explosion thundered next to the mosque located in the Australian city of Perth. According to information transmitted on Wednesday, the Sky News Australia television channel, this happened when the believers made an evening prayer in the mosque. The local publication Perth Now notes that hundreds of Muslims were in the building, the RIA Novosti said in the publication.
The police found that an incendiary bomb exploded at the mosque. A car parked nearby burned from the fire, and four more cars were damaged by fire. There are no victims. In addition, anti -Islamic graffiti were left on the walls of the Islamic College located near the mosque, Interfax reports.
Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Ternbull condemned this crime, and the head of the Australian Foreign Ministry Julia Bishop called him "politically motivated."