Protesters assault Yoga Day occasion in Maldives

MALE: Police within the Maldives used tear fuel and pepper spray to regulate a crowd of people that disrupted a yoga occasion organized by the Indian Excessive Fee, or embassy, within the capital Male on Tuesday morning, an organizer mentioned.
The group stormed a stadium the place greater than 150 folks, together with diplomats and authorities officers, have been collaborating in an occasion celebrating Worldwide Day of Yoga, attacking contributors and vandalising the property, one of many organizers, who didn’t need to be named as a result of he was not licensed to talk with the media, instructed Reuters.