A witness prevented the firebombing of a Connecticut synagogue by honking his car horn. Two men outside Congregation Beth El in Norwalk were apparently frightened by the sound of the horn, dropped the Molotov cocktails they were holding and fled the scene in a car, the witness told police. People were inside the synagogue at the time of Tuesday night’s incident.
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