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LeftishBrit

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Sun Apr 2, 2017, 04:55 PM Apr 2017

Six arrested over teenage asylum seeker beaten in frenzied attack

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and violent disorder after a teenage asylum seeker was attacked.

Police arrested two women and four men who are all aged between 20 and 24 in Croydon on Saturday night. ..

The 17-year-old, a Kurdish Iranian, was waiting at a bus stop with two friends in Croydon, south-east London at around 11.40pm on Friday when he was approached by a group of people.

Police say they asked him where he was from, and when he told them he was an asylum seeker they chased and attacked him...

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-04-01/teenage-asylum-seeker-beaten-in-frenzied-attack/

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