A teenager has been detained in hospital after attacks at a gurdwara left two people injured.

Police were called to the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend on July 11 after reports of an incident inside the religious site.

A 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was arrested and later held in a mental health facility.

He was charged with six offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, attempted grievous bodily harm, using or threatening unlawful violence, threats to kill, threatening a person with a bladed weapon and possessing a bladed article in a public place.

Nobody was seriously injured and police recovered a bladed weapon.

There was a huge emergency response at the time of the incident, although police were quick to say they were treating it as an “isolated incident”.

A sentencing hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this week heard how a hospital order was put in place for the teenager.

A hospital order is a court order that requires a person to be detained in a hospital for treatment instead of serving a prison sentence. Hospital orders are issued under the Mental Health Act.