Dramatic new video shows Golders Green ambulance exploding in arson attack

WorldPolitics
24 Mar 2026 • 7:32 PM MYT
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New video shows the moment an ambulance in Golders Green exploded after it was set alight in an arson attack.

Footage taken in the early hours of Monday (23 March) in north London shows the vehicle on fire, with smoke billowing above, as firefighters use hoses to spray water on it in an attempt to put it out.

Orange and pink flames flash into the air as the vehicle explodes.

Scotland Yard has said that the incident outside the Machzike Hadath Synagogue, in which four Jewish community ambulances were torched, is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime but not as terrorism.