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Broadstairs: Witness tells of dramatic moment police swooped in to arrest five people in town's High Street

14:00, 31 March 2016

updated: 14:00, 31 March 2016

A witness has told of the moment she saw people being pepper sprayed and arrested in Broadstairs last night.

A man is thought to have been injured in an assault in the town.

The attack happened at a property in the High Street just before 6.30pm.

The people arrested are believed to have come from a flat above the Natwest Bank in Broadstairs
The people arrested are believed to have come from a flat above the Natwest Bank in Broadstairs

Katrina Solley, 25, of Queens Road, said: "There were seven police cars, three vans and an ambulance all outside.

"I think it started in the property above the bank, I could hear people shouting and swearing and then we went outside to look.

"Four men were arrested and so was a woman, we watched them get pepper sprayed."

Police arrested two men
Police arrested two men

Police spokesman James Walker said: "Police responded to an incident in High Street, Broadstairs.

"A man was reportedly assaulted at a private address and police were called at 6.20pm.

"A woman was arrested on suspicion of assault, three men for affray and one man for obstruction. Enquiries are ongoing."

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