A suspect was arrested after an early morning apartment fire in central Jerusalem seriously injured four people, including two children.
The blaze broke out in a building on HaNeviim Street adjacent to the Bikur Holim hospital near the city’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood at about 2 a.m.
Two parents, their 9-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son were all hospitalized with serious injuries. The father was reportedly in a life-threatening condition.
Two other people were also treated for more minor injuries stemming from the fire, which was brought under control after about an hour.
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Ten others who were in the building at the time were unharmed, a fire official said.
Police arrested one man on suspicion of involvement in the fire, after a neighbor told police the fire was started by a Molotov cocktail thrown at the building, the Ynet news website reported.
The identity of the suspect was not immediately known.
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