Police on Monday (March 23) afternoon began a forensic search of the scene of an attack on four Jewish community ambulances which were set ablaze in north London.

The London Fire Brigade said multiple cylinders on the vehicles exploded, shattering nearby windows. No injuries were reported and no arrests have been made.

Security footage showed three men in hooded jackets approaching the ambulances before they were engulfed in flames.

Police said the fires were being treated as an antisemitic hate crime and not as a terrorist incident, but the investigation would be led by counter-terrorism officers who had specialist expertise.

The ambulances belonged to Hatzola, a not-for-profit volunteer organization that works alongside Britain's health service and was founded in the 1960s in Brooklyn, New York, to provide services to its Yiddish speaking, Hasidic community.

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POLICE CONDUCTING FORENSIC SEARCH OF NEARBY STREETS / FIRE ENGINES AND POLICE AT SCENE

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1. VARIOUS OF FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS IN SUITS CONDUCTING SEARCH OF NEARBY RESIDENTIAL STREET

2. VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICER SPEAKER TO A MAN IN A CAR

3. VARIOUS OF FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS IN SUITS CONDUCTING SEARCH OF NEARBY RESIDENTIAL STREET

4. VARIOUS OF POLICE AT SCENE

5. COMMUNITY MEMBERS WATCHING ON

6. POLICE VEHICLES AT SCENE

7. POLICE OFFICERS AT SCENE

8. VARIOUS OF POLICE LINING UP AHEAD OF SEARCH

9. POLICE OFFICER SPEAKING TO RESIDENTS, HOLDING POLICE TAPE

10. POLICE STANDING IN FORMATION

11. SMALL GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS WALKING PAST CARRYING ISRAELI AND ANTI-IRANIAN REGIME SUN AND LION FLAGS

12. POLICE STANDING IN STREET

13. FIRE ENGINES AND POLICE AND SCENE