Family including pregnant woman and three young children had to flee when St Helens home was set alight, police sayPolice are appealing for information after the home of a Syrian refugee family was set alight in Merseyside and they were forced to flee in the middle of the night. Police confirmed the fire was an arson attack in which an accelerant, probably petrol, was pushed through the letterbox of their St Helens home and set alight. The attack occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning while the family of five were inside. They said the family had not been targeted before this incident, and that officers would be “relentless” in their pursuit of the perpetrators. DI Louise Birchall said: “The occupants of this home, a Syrian family with three young children, were thankfully not more seriously hurt.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 20:03 UTC