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Police are investigating what they describe as multiple arson attempts outside a Calgary school.

The incidents, which took place outside regular school hours, included one on Feb. 7 around 5:45 p.m., when four male youths were seen attempting to light arrows on fire and shoot them against the south side of St. Isabella Elementary Junior High School on Copperfield Boulevard S.E.

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Three other similar incidents were reported at the school, on Feb. 12 at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 15 around 6:30 p.m. and Feb. 23 at approximately 10 p.m. On the 23rd, police say a witness saw two male youths flee after hearing glass break. The witness extinguished a small fire at the back of the school and called police.

On the 15th, a witness saw four young males attempting to start a fire and called police, while on the 12th, police were contacted for reports of evidence suggesting there had been another arson attempt.

“It is believed that these incidents are connected to the first and that in the last three the unknown youths mixed and used Molotov cocktails to start the fires,” Calgary police said in a news release Monday.