A fire and an explosion caused by an arson attempt damaged tow classrooms last night in the Beth Rivka day school near Paris. The vandals placed cans of gasoline in a classroom and ignited them. The explosion was caused by an accumulation of gasoline fumes. School officials asked police to investigate the attack.
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