NYPD arrests man suspected of throwing Molotov cocktails at religious buildings

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New York City authorities arrested a suspect accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at two churches in Queens on Wednesday evening. 

The New York City Police Department apprehended the man after saying he threw a homemade bomb at the Iglesia Bautista “El Mesias” church at 97-44 75th Street and another Molototov cocktail at a second church, known as the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses at 78th Street, about half a mile away.

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