A mosque was attacked, a van set alight and 39 police officers were injured after rioting in the town
Thirty-nine police officers were injured during violence in Southport last night after protesters pelted police with glass bottles and bricks and attacked a mosque following a knife attack that killed three children. Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were all fatally stabbed in Southport on Monday, while a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, remains in custody accused of murder and attempted murder.
In the aftermath of the knife attack, several false accusations were spread on social media with incorrect names of the suspect. Merseyside Police said “a large group of people - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League” - began to throw items such as bricks towards the mosque in the seaside town at around 7.45pm.
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