{"id":151000,"date":"2025-06-02T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151000\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:36:14","slug":"colorado-attack-live-six-injured-after-man-sets-people-on-fire-at-colorado-rally-for-israeli-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151000\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado attack live: Six injured after man sets people on fire at Colorado rally for Israeli hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we know so farpublished at 02:31 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>02:31 BST<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police and FBI agents gather after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ffd8131d-089d-4f82-95b2-5214bd16e635.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let&#8217;s recap what we just learned from the press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FBI says the attack in Boulder, Colorado was a <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">&#8220;targeted act of violence&#8221;,<\/b> and they are investigating it as an <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">&#8220;act of terrorism&#8221;<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">What happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is accused of using a <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">&#8220;makeshift flamethrower&#8221;<\/b> and an <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">&#8220;incendiary device&#8221;<\/b> in the attack. The FBI says he shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group had gathered for a &#8220;regularly scheduled, weekly, peaceful event&#8221;, which the BBC understands was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/cjdx44kx5zxt?post=asset%3A2ac14054-aa6d-4c5f-af12-bd65b9f96c61#post\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Run for Their Lives event<\/a>, an organisation which raises awareness for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police say they are &#8220;fairly confident&#8221; that they have the <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">lone suspect in custody<\/b>. There&#8217;s no evidence the suspect is connected to a wider group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Who are the victims?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">six victims<\/b>, aged between 67 and 88.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of them have been taken to hospitals with burns and other injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least one of the victims is seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">What&#8217;s happening now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities say they won&#8217;t hold another press conference today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police say their teams are still working in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The district attorney for Boulder County said: &#8220;We are fully united 100% in making sure the charges we bring hold the attacker fully accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Boulder Courthouse will remain closed on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know so farpublished at 02:31 British Summer Time 02:31 BST Image source, Reuters Let&#8217;s recap what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-151000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611446333087950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}