Hunt for vandals after mosque targeted

POLICE are hunting vandals who were caught on CCTV targeting a mosque by hurling traffic cones through its windows.

- By LEE GARRETT

Footage captured the vandals at the Peace Centre in Thurnby, Leicester, at the end of evening prayers on Sunday.

CCTV shows two hooded thugs approaching the mosque before smashing the glass of the entrance doors with traffic cones.

Leicestershire Police believe the vandalism is connected to two other attacks on a bus and a house that same night.

Numayar Gazi, spokesman for the Peace Centre, which has a mosque, community centre and a weekly food bank, said: "This was premeditated and deeply saddening.

"It happened just at the end of evening prayers when there were worshippers still inside.

"The most scary part is that children, aged just four or five, come and play by the water fountain which is right next to those doors.

"So a child could have easily been seriously injured.