UPDATE Southport incidents. Protests, more arrests & fires. Our society in in danger.
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Merseyside Police has released a statement on the violence that has erupted outside a mosque in Southport.
The force says a large group of people, believed to be supporters of the English Defence League, began to throw items towards a mosque on St Luke's Road.
One officer has suffered a suspected broken nose and police vehicles have been set alight.
Bottles and wheelie bins have also been thrown at officers responding to the incident.
The violence appears to be linked to several false accusations spread online, with incorrect names of the 17-year-old boy that has been arrested shared on social media.
Assistant Chief Constable Alex Goss says: "There has been much speculation and hypothesis around the status of a 17-year-old male who is currently in police custody, and some individuals are using this to bring violence and disorder to our streets.
"We have already said that the person arrested was born in the UK and speculation helps nobody at this time.
"It is sickening to see this happening within a community that has been devastated by the tragic loss of three young lives."
The unnamed suspect is from Wales, Merseyside Police has said previously, but there have been false claims that he was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat.
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