In Wales, Islamic migrants burn a Christian church
Fire at the Methodist Church of Wales. Photo: newyddion
In the city of Port Talbot (Wales), the police arrested two migrants from Pakistan on suspicion of deliberately setting fire to a church.
As local press reports, the fire occurred on Thursday evening, April 24, in a Methodist chapel building on Station Road in the city center.
Two teenagers, aged 14 and 15, who arrived in the country from Pakistan, were detained on suspicion of arson. The investigation is currently ongoing.
Fire crews from Port Talbot, Swansea, and Neath arrived at the scene at 18:49 local time. It took several hours to extinguish the fire, which was fully brought under control only in the early hours of Friday, April 25.
According to the Mid and West Wales Fire Service, the church building was seriously damaged by the fire.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to the president of the All-Ukrainian Association of International Employment Companies, Vasyl Voskoboynyk, the only way to save Ukraine is through the import of migrants.
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