SYDNEY: A firebomb attack outside an Australian mosque while worshippers were at prayer was condemned on Wednesday by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, with one Islamic leader calling it a “hate crime.”

No one was injured in Tuesday night’s blast, which destroyed a car parked outside a mosque and Islamic college in the Perth suburb of Thornlie.

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