Police car overturned and bus set alight as hundreds join Leeds ‘disturbance’

A police car has been overturned amid disorder in the Harehills area of Leeds.

Police were first called to Luxor Street at about 5pm due to an ‘ongoing disturbance which involved some agency workers and some children’.

But as crowds continued to gather the children and agency workers were taken to a safe place as police continue to deal with disorder in the street.

Shocking video shared on X and TikTok shows a police car being pushed onto its side as rocks are thrown at its windows by several people, including children.

People were seen crowding around another police car as a young man jumped onto its bonnet.

Footage shows crowds of hundreds of people filling the streets, shouting, and throwing items at police cars, and at least two separate fires appear to have been set.

Other clips show a double decker well alight, before surrounding crowds run away screaming as it explodes due to the flames.

West Yorkshire Police says it has closed some roads and are asking people to avoid the area.

Drone footage shows lines of officers, shoulder to shoulder, blocking the road.

No injuries have been reported and officers are still investigating at the scene.

Salma Arif, a Leeds councillor, shared a video on X alongside a police officer asking people to stay safe.

She said: ‘There is an ongoing situation currently in Harehills, we’re aware of that, the police are here.

‘We are asking everybody in the area to please stay at home at this moment in time.’

The officer, Inspector Nicholls, added: “‘If you could just stay where you are, stay in your houses while we mange this incident.

‘If you are in the crowd I would ask you to go home please so we can keep everybody safe.’

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