Eight injured by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled ‘Free Palestine’

Law enforcement officials at the scene (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and threw an incendiary device into a group raising attention for Israeli hostages in Gaza, law enforcement officials have said.

Eight people were injured, some with burns, in the attack in the Pearl Street shopping centre in central Boulder, Colorado.