Manhunt after hotel with asylum seekers has flare shoved through window
Anti-migrant protesters opposite the Highfield House Hotel in Southampton (Picture: w8media)
A manhunt has been launched after a flare was hurled through the window of a hotel housing asylum seekers.
The pyrotechnic was hurled through a ground-floor window at the Highfield House Hotel in Southampton at around 2.15am on Sunday.
The flames were thankfully extinguished and nobody was reported hurt.
Officers and investigating the incident and searching for two people seen fleeing the hotel after the incident.
One was wearing a dark hooded top and a face covering, while the other donned a white hoodie.
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Additional police patrols are to be carried out in the area this week.
A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary said: ‘Thankfully, the fire caused by the flare was quickly put out and nobody was injured.
‘Enquiries are under way to establish the exact circumstances of the incident, including locating two people seen approaching the hotel and then fleeing the scene.’
Chief Inspector Chris Douglas said: ‘Fortunately, this fire was quickly put out, but this was an extremely dangerous act and could have had fatal consequences.
‘Our local neighbourhood policing team will be carrying out additional patrols in Portswood in the coming days, and if anyone has any concerns then please do speak to them.
‘I want to urge anyone with information, however small you think it may be, to get in touch and share this with us.
‘If you have any CCTV which may have captured the two men either in the moments leading up to or after the incident, then we would ask you to share this with us.
‘We are working closely with local authorities as part of this investigation.’
The hotel was the target of an anti-migrant protest last week on September 1.
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