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UK Police Arrest Some 100 Participants of Notting Hill Carnival

© AFP 2023 / NIKLAS HALLE'N Visitors line the streets of Ladbrooke Grove as the carnical floats pass by on the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 30, 2015
Visitors line the streets of Ladbrooke Grove as the carnical floats pass by on the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 30, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Police have arrested 92 people during the first day of the annual Notting Hill Carnival in UK.

LONDON (Sputnik) — UK police have arrested 92 people during the first day of the annual Notting Hill Carnival, a Metropolitan Police Service spokesman said.

According to the spokeswoman, seven people were detained for sexual offences while 25 were arrested for drugs offences.

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Other arrests were made for possession of offensive weapons, going equipped for theft and other public order offences, the local police said Sunday.

The spokeswoman added that the police had also confiscated some 350 canisters of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.

More than one million people attend the Notting Hill Carnival in West London annually. The carnival is notorious for increasing the criminal rate in the district.

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