{"id":301946,"date":"2018-08-29T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301946"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:47:32","slug":"man-arrested-over-arson-attack-at-sikh-gurdwara-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/man-arrested-over-arson-attack-at-sikh-gurdwara-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over Arson attack at Sikh Gurdwara in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301947 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Gurdwara-Edinburgh-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Gurdwara-Edinburgh-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Gurdwara-Edinburgh-494x420.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Gurdwara-Edinburgh.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>A Gurdwara on Tuesday had been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack in\u00a0Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the police had treated the \u201csuspicious\u201d act as a hate crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No-one was reportedly\u00a0injured in the incident, but the building was severely damaged. The investigation and search for suspects have begun by the Police in Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, whoever responsible for the attack, purposely targeted the temple and police said they were treating the attack as \u201csuspicious\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the post on the Gurdwara&#8217;s official Facebook page, \u201cWe regret to inform you that Guru Nanak Gurdwara suffered an arson attack this morning at 5 am, someone tried to burn down the front door. There\u2019s a lot of internal smoke damage, and access to Gurdwara Sahib has been denied by police until smoke clears and it is safe to enter\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Making an arrest in the case, Edinburgh Police on Wednesday tweeted, &#8220;We have arrested a 49-year-old man as part of our investigation into a suspicious fire at the Sikh temple in Sheriff Brae during the early hours of Tuesday 28th August. Inquiries into this incident are continuing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gurdwara on Tuesday had been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack in\u00a0Edinburgh, Scotland. According to the reports, the police had treated the \u201csuspicious\u201d act as a hate crime. No-one was reportedly\u00a0injured in the incident, but the building was severely damaged. The investigation and search for suspects have begun by the Police in Edinburgh. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4470,4471,4469,4473,4472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301948,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301946\/revisions\/301948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}