Three people, including a police officer, have been stabbed
in London's Hyde Park after a water fight got out of control.
A second police officer was wounded by a bottle.
The officers are in hospital and their injuries are not
life-threatening.
The other two people were both taken to hospital. One has
injuries that are not life-threatening but the condition of the second is
unclear.
Police were at the park's Serpentine from 3pm after a large
number of people gathered for the water fight.
A Met Police spokesman said that at about 8.40pm parts of
the crowd became "hostile" and began to throw things - including
bottles - at officers.
It is not yet clear what sparked the trouble but some people
who said they were at the gathering blamed police.
One Twitter user, @imanilindsay, said she thought there had
been no problem before the police arrived.
She wrote: "I do not in any way condone the throwing of
bottles. I cried when it happened.
"I have an issue with how the teens were lured into a
trap.
"It was like watching an animal being back up against a
wall and playing on the fact that it reacted."
She added: "They got what they wanted ... to get the
Black people out of the park."
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