A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a number of people were sprayed with what is believed to be a form of pepper spray at Heathrow Airport, police have said.<\/p>\n
Police and emergency services were called at 08:11 GMT on Sunday to a multi-storey car park at Terminal 3 after reports of an alleged assault by a group of men.<\/p>\n
The man is in custody while police search for other suspects. 21 victims were treated at the scene with five taken to hospital, the London Ambulance Service said.<\/p>\n
The force said it was an isolated incident and was not being treated as terrorism or protest-related. There has been disruption to rail services and Heathrow is advising passengers to “allow extra time when travelling to the airport “.<\/p>\n
Met Commander Peter Stevens said: “At this stage, we believe the incident involved a group of people known to each other, with an argument escalating and resulting in a number of people being injured.”<\/p>\n
He added officers “responded quickly” and there would be “an increased police presence at Heathrow Airport throughout the morning”.<\/p>\n
Social media footage showed a large armed police response, fire engines and an officer appearing to search a handcuffed individual.<\/p>\n
The Heathrow Express and parts of the Elizabeth Line were suspended on Sunday morning while responders attended the scene. Trains have resumed but are running with delays, National Rail said.<\/p>\n
Heathrow has advised passengers to “allow extra time when travelling to the airport and to check with their airline for any queries”.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said they were called to assist emergency responders at Heathrow Airport at 08.14 GMT on Sunday. Firefighters remain at the scene, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a number of people were sprayed with what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-303182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}