BREAKING NEWS: Four teenagers arrested over arson attack at Islamic boarding school

Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a fire at an Islamic boarding school in south east London, Scotland Yard said.
About 130 children and staff were evacuated from Darul Uloom, a Muslim madrassa or religious school, in Chislehurst, Kent, just before midnight on Saturday.
Two 17-year-olds and two 18-year-olds were detained late last night and taken to a south London police station, where they remain in custody.
School principal Mustafa Musa said today the fire was started in the teaching area and damaged about 10 per cent of the building.
Two boys received treatment for smoke inhalation, but were not taken to hospital.

The attack happened only days after an Islamic centre in London's Muswell Hill was burnt to the ground amid allegations it was a racist attack.
The building was daubed with the letters 'EDL,' apparently referencing the English Defence League.
That blaze prompted fears that the fire may have been a reprisal attack in the wake of the Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

Attacked: Darul Uloom, a Muslim madrassa or religious school, set in the pretty Kent village of Chislehurst, was target of suspected arson

Sunday night, Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said: 'These are difficult times for London's communities.
'The Met is now investigating suspicious fires at two locations within the Islamic community which have happened in the past few days.'

School principal Mustafa Musa said intruders started the fire in the school teaching area but did not say how the fire was started or if the culprits broke into the building.

London Fire Brigade said the fire was under control in less than an hour after being called.

The fire comes four days after an Islamic centre, graffiteed with EDL in giant letters was burned to the ground in Muswell Hill, north London

The £3,000-a-year boarding school was established in 1988 with the purpose of producing 'great scholars and Huffaz (people who have memorised the Koran) to preserve and transmit the eternal message of Allah'.
Its website says: 'The institution helps children to explore and develop their Islamic identity as a natural part of their mental, emotional and personal development.'
The school was built in 1974 and comprises 130 boarding rooms in addition to classrooms, dining hall, assembly hall, prayer hall, gym, playing fields and car parking with 100 spaces, over a 10 acre site.
An extension was built in 2007 consisting of 18 classrooms, a science laboratory, a prayer hall and wudhu (ablution) facilities.

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