Two-year-old remains in critical condition following petrol bomb attack on Saturday

A Romany toddler who suffered severe burns after her home was torched on Saturday remains in a critical condition, doctors in Ostrava have said. The girl suffered burns to more than 80 percent of her body after unknown assailants used petrol bombs to set her family’s home alight. The attack, which took place late on Saturday evening, is thought to have been racially motivated. Both the outgoing Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek and Czech President Václav Klaus have spoken out against the violent attack. One Romany rights group has warned the country’s Roma minority to be vigilant against ‘terrorist attacks by Czechs’ in light of the fire. The infant’s 27-year-old mother was also badly injured in the attack, while her father is undergoing surgery to treat burns on his limbs and back.