Man attacks Colorado crowd with firebombs, 6 people injured

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Six people were injured on Sunday (June 1) when a 45-year-old man  threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Six people were injured on Sunday, when a 45-year-old man threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado,

00:08where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place.

00:13Authorities said there were six victims, aged between 67 and 88 years old, who were transported to hospitals,

00:21FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Office, Mark Mikolek, said.

00:25As a result of these preliminary facts, it was clear that it was a targeted act of violence.

00:31Mikolek named the suspect as Mohamed Soliman, aged 45.

00:37Soliman was hospitalized shortly after the attack.

00:40The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the United States over Israel's war in Gaza,

00:46which has spurred both an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime, as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel,

00:52led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitic.

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