A man doused the front doors of a downtown Melbourne synagogue and set them alight Friday night, Australian police said Saturday.

An arsonist set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue, forcing the congregation to flee. Seven months earlier, criminals destroyed a synagogue in the same city.

The attack, one of several recent antisemitic incidents in Australia, comes seven months after another synagogue in Melbourne was targeted by arsonists who set a blaze that injured one and caused widespread damage.