British police said on Saturday 15 people had been arrested after a protest by crowds outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned violent
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One officer and two members of the public received slight injuries, police said, adding that a total of 13 men and two women had been arrested. Rumors and misinformation had circulated on social media ahead of Friday’s violence following an incident on Feb. 6 in Knowsley in which a man made inappropriate advances toward a teenage girl, Kennedy said.
As the number of migrants crossing the English Channel to reach Britain rises, the government has been using hotels across the country as temporary accommodation while it processes their applications for asylum.
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