Mob storms yoga day event in Maldives

Maldives police tracking goods used by the attacker for the PPM opposition party
The angry masses on Tuesday invaded the Maldives National Football Stadium and attacked the participants at the ‘Yoga Day’ event organized by the Indian High Commission and the Maldives government.

The state police immediately arrived and handled the masses, allowing the event to continue, said male -based officials. Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih called him a “serious attention” problem. As soon as the incident, he said in a tweet: “Investigation was launched by @policeMV into the incident that occurred this morning at the Galolhu Stadium. This is treated as a serious problem and those who are responsible will be quickly brought to the law. “

The Maldives government is “very condemning” the incident. “Acts of evil violence aimed at disrupting public safety and damaging the safety of individuals and diplomatic corps will not be tolerated,” said the Foreign Ministry of the Nation of the Indian Ocean in the Indian Ocean in a statement.

Video footage from the incident captured by the Maldives media showed angry people, brought pillars and flags, raged on participants who sat on the ground on Yoga mats, and tried to attack them. The Maldives police service said that his party tracked the goods used by the attackers to the Maldives Progressive Party office, led by former President Abdulla Yameen, who is currently the spearhead of the ‘India Out’ campaign. “Until now, the evidence shows that the demonstrators used goods taken from the Maldives Progressive Party Office (PPM),” the police said in a statement.

The perpetrators have “tried to incite fear by forcefully entering, destroying property, and trying to attack participants,” said the police, after bringing six people to detention in connection with the incident.

In a tweet on Tuesday, the Maldives police also asked for help from residents, through evidence or information relating to the incident. Before the event, the authorities paid attention to messages on social media that mocked the ‘Yoga Day’ event. The messages claim Yoga is a way of Hindu worship and urges people from an Islamic state to stay away from the practice.

Around 150 people, including many Maldives, diplomats, and senior government officials were present at the venue on Tuesday morning, according to sources to men. Nothing is very injured in attacks by hordes, they said.

The Democratic Democratic Party of Maldives (MDP) “firmly condemned” “attacks of violence”. “These types of terrible and cruel actions do not have a place in peaceful democratic society like us,” said the party in a statement, which recorded that the Maldives had marked ‘World Yoga Day’ since 2015. The maldeti was among 177 years 177 Countries that participated in sponsoring resolutions at the United Nations in 2014, declared June 21 as ‘International Yoga Day’.