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After gurudwara attack, US mosque gutted
Updated On: 08 August, 2012 07:40 AM IST | | Agencies
A mosque was burned to the ground in Missouri on Monday, in what worshippers suspect was a hate attack, less than a day after six people were killed in a shooting at a Sikh temple.
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Firefighters and police were called to a blaze at the Islamic Center in Joplin, Missouri – where around 125 members of the local Muslim community pray.
“The building was completely destroyed,” said Sharon Rhine, a spokesman for the local Jasper County Sheriff’s office.
No one was wounded in the incident.
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