Malaysian police have detained eight people over an arson attack of the Protestant Metro Tabernacle church in early January, and declared the case "solved". "We believe we have solved this case," Bakri Zinin, Malaysia's Federal Criminal Investigation Department Chief, told a press conference on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
He said one of the suspects sought hospital treatment for burns on his hands and chest, and his capture led to the arrest of seven others, The Star reports.
Of 14 attempted attacks carried out on churches, a convent school, a Sikh temple and a mosque, only one was successful and it gutted the ground-level of the Kuala Lumpur church that belongs to the Assemblies of God group.
Two new atttacks were reported on Thursday, in which vandals set fire to to a curtain in a small building designated for Muslim prayers in southern Johor state, according to an Associated Press report.
Another prayer room in the district was also set on fire, the report added.
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