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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claire Savage

Police investigate Illinois Planned Parenthood fire as arson

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.

Officers responded to a report of an “unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail” into the Peoria clinic building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police spokesperson Semone Roth said.

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