What you should know
Eight people were injured in the attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, USA. According to international media, eight people were injured when a man threw a "Molotov cocktail" at people gathered in support of the Israeli hostages, shouting "Free Palestine" on Sunday.
The FBI has suspected this incident as a terrorist attack. The attack took place during a weekly demonstration organized by an Israeli group called Run for Their Lives. The group has been holding regular rallies outside Pearl Street in solidarity with the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
According to Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfern, the police received a call at 1:30 p.m. local time saying "a man was seen with a weapon and people were on fire." Mark Michalek, head of the FBI Denver office, said the attacker was 45-year-old Mohammad Sabri Soliman.
According to government officials, Soliman is an Egyptian citizen. He came to California on a nonimmigrant visa in 2022, but that visa expired in February 2023. What is
"Molotov cocktail"?
'Molotov cocktail' is a homemade weapon. To make this, petrol and flammable substances are kept in the bottle. It is made like a cloth lamp and is lit on fire and thrown away. It was named after Vyacheslav Molotov, the then foreign minister of the Soviet Union. It was used in the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939.
