3 Men Charged with Antisemitic Ambulance Arson in London

0:00It's April 4th. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Three young men from East London are in custody after getting charged with arson for torching four ambulances from a Jewish charity in North London. This happened on March 23rd in Golders Green, a neighborhood with a big Jewish community. The ambulances belonged to Hatsola Northwest, a volunteer group that handles local emergencies. The suspects are 20-year-old Hamza Ikbal, 19-year-old Rehan Khan, and a 17-year-old who can be named yet. They showed up in Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday for a 45-minute hearing, but didn't enter please. A fourth person got arrested too in connection with the fire. The blaze wiped out all four vehicles, and exploding oxygen tanks shattered windows and a nearby apartment building. Prosecutor Emma Harroway called it a premeditated hit on the Jewish community, pointing to strong evidence of targeting. Counter-terror police are treating this as an anti-Semitic hate crime.

1:02They're checking a claim of responsibility from a group possibly tied to Iran, though it's not labeled terrorism so far. Two other men arrested earlier got released on bail. All three will head to the Old Bailey on April 24th for their next court date as the investigation keeps digging into what drove this. Attack