UK: Brawl breaks out at Holi event in Harrow, one held

LONDON: A brawl broke retired betwixt Muslim youths and Hindus astatine a Holika Dahan solemnisation successful Harrow connected Tuesday nighttime aft 3 teenagers forcefully stopped the euphony astatine the event. The unit led to the apprehension of a 14-year-old boy.The International Siddhashram Shakti centre held the lawsuit successful Harrow civic centre car park, other Harrow Central Mosque. Dignitaries, including mayors and councillors, were among astir 1,000 guests astatine the event, which began astatine 7 p.m. and included a puja and ceremonial lighting of the Holika fire.At 8.30 pm, by which clip the VIPs had left, 3 teenage boys turned up and pulled the wires retired of the dependable strategy — which was playing devotional euphony — causing the euphony to stop.“They

chucked the speakers connected the crushed and ran away. The speakers are present broken. They came from the mosque area,” said Hindu spiritual person Shri Rajrajeshwar Guruji, laminitis and chairperson of the centre.“Five minutes aboriginal they returned with 15 to 20 boys, immoderate successful balaclavas, and 1 with a talwar, and they threw brew cans into the fire, threw solid bottles and hurled barriers connected the ground. The Sikh information went implicit and they tried to harm them arsenic well,” Rajrajeshwar Guruji said.

“They wanted to combat and we were trying to support ourselves. It got retired of control, truthful we called the police,” helium added. “As soon arsenic the boys heard the sirens, they ran off, but our squad chased them and caught 1 lad and handed him implicit to police,” helium said.A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: “A 14-year-old lad was arrested connected suspicion of affray pursuing an incidental successful Harrow. Police were called to reports of a disturbance astatine a civic centre successful Station Road astatine astir 20.50 hours (8.50 p.m. section time) connected March 3.

Police arrived connected country wrong minutes and arrested the boy.”One unpaid who tried to interruption up the combat had his garland pulled disconnected and was near with cuts connected his cervix and bruises.“Our information guys spoke to the mosque and adjacent the mosque is acrophobic and they privation to cognize who did it truthful they tin prohibition them. We person bully relations with the mosque,” Rajrajeshwar Guruji said.