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Fire at mosque 'may have been revenge attack'[/b]
Police have said that a fire which destroyed the roof of a mosque may have been in revenge for the alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes leaving UK airports.
Fire crews were called to the al-Birr Masjid Mosque in Sarum Hill, Basingstoke, Hants, early on Saturday morning.
The blaze took 16 firefighters almost two hours to put out, according to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. Nobody was injured.
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Watts, of Hampshire Police, said the fire was being treated as arson and a full investigation was under way.
He said: "In this current climate, we cannot rule out the possibility that this incident is related to the recent security threat.