Riots Break Out After Stabbings at Taylor Swift-Themed Event in U.K.

Rioters have burnt police vehicles, thrown bricks and bottles at police and pelted a mosque in the town of Southport following the deadly stabbing spree that killed three children and injured eight more, including two adults at a Taylor Swift themed dance and yoga class on Monday.

The attack happened after a 17-year-old allegedly broke into the Hart Space Dance studio in Southport, U.K., during a Swift-themed yoga and dance class. The suspect then stabbed three children aged 6, 7, and 9 to death, and injured eight other children, five of whom are in critical condition, and two adults, according to a statement from the Merseyside Police.

The murders became a flash point for anti-immigration sentiment after it was revealed by neighbors of the suspect that the murderer was the son of Rwandan parents, but was born in the U.K., according to the Daily

Despite the suspect reportedly being raised by Christian parents, rioters assembled outside the Southport Islamic Society Mosque on Tuesday evening, chanting “No surrender!” and “English till I die!”

According to The Guardian, others heard chants of “Allah Allah, who the f**k is Allah?”

The rioters are allegedly members of the far-right English Defence League, an organization that has been referred to as explicitly anti-immigrant and Islamophobic by activists.

At around 7.45pm, a large group of people – believed to be supporters of the English Defence League – began to throw items towards a local mosque on St Luke’s Road in Southport,” Merseyside police wrote in a statement.

Police also stated that the riots “involve many people who do not live in the Merseyside area or care about the people of Merseyside.”

Additionally, a number of officers were injured, police confirmed, while a number of cars were also damaged and a shop was broken into and looted in Southport. “This is completely unacceptable. We’re gathering evidence and those responsible will be brought to justice,” police said in an appeal on Facebook