Police are investigating a fire which broke out overnight at an Islamic boarding school in a south-east London suburb, officers said Sunday.
Police who attended the blaze at the Darul Uloom Islamic School in Chislehurst along with London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service said investigations were at an early stage but that the fire was being treated as suspicious.
Emergency services were called to the school at around 2350 BST on Saturday and the fire was extinguished shortly after the arrival of the fire brigade.
More than 120 pupils and staff at the boys school are believed to have been evacuated after the blaze was discovered.
Police said enquiries were continuing into the circumstances of the fire and no arrests have been made yet.
Two people were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation but their ages have not been released. There was minor damage to building at the £3,000-a-year school which was established in 1988.
A spokeperson for the school was not immediately available to comment.
Several mosques have been attacked and there has been a rise in anti-Muslim incidents in the greater London area in recent weeks following the brutal murder of a soldier on a street in Woolwich, southeast London last month.
Police probe blaze at Islamic boarding school
