A martial arts club in Rochdale is "horrified" after arsonists set fire to their building while young children were inside, taking a class.
On Tuesday April 26, in the evening, Cobra Kai Ju Jitsu Club was running a class with more than 20 children present at St James' Church Hall on Tower Street in Heywood, when parents began reporting the smell of smoke.
It turned out to be a fire coming from the ladies' toilets in the church hall, which belongs to St James Church, situated opposite. The fire is thought to be an arson attack after the perpetrators allegedly climbed onto a window ledge outside before setting fire to the toilets from there.
