Non-identified individuals threw an incendiary bottle into the premises of a synagogue in the center of Khabarovsk in Russian Far East early on Sunday. No one was hurt.

�The bottle struck against the stairs, burst into flame, but went out on the ground moist after the rain,� Galina Orlova, spokesperson for the Khabarovsk territorial interior department, told Interfax on Sunday.

The incident was reported by a security guard. No one was hurt in the attack. The building was not damaged, she said.

Police have launched an operation to track down the assailants, while the prosecutor�s office is expected to launch a probe into the incident on charges of hooliganism.

It was the second attack of this kind on the synagogue this summer. Anti-Jewish slogans were inscribed on a concrete wall in front of the synagogue in late May. The inscription was painted over, but no criminal action was started.

In January, a young man, Alexander Koptsev, broke into a synagogue in central Moscow during evening prayers wielding a knife. Shouting �I will kill Jews!� he attacked worshippers, slashing and stabbing at least 9 people before the son of a rabbi wrestled him to the ground.

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