Harehills: Bus destroyed and police car flipped in Leeds disorder

Earlier, police said that officers were called to "an ongoing disturbance which involved some agency workers and some children" when they attended Luxor Road.

A police spokesperson said: "More people started to attend the location and a decision was made to remove the agency workers and the children to a safe place.

"A crowd started to gather and more officers were requested to attend the area, where some pockets of disorder were occurring.

"More officers have been deployed to the area to assist with the management of this incident."

It later said it will conduct a full investigation into "all criminal offences... including damage to vehicles from fire".

"All criminal offences, including damage to vehicles from fire, will be fully investigated," the force said.

It added that "the full weight of the law will be brought against those responsible".

First Bus confirmed one of the company's vehicles was set on fire, with another "caught up in the public disorder".

Neither the bus driver nor the passengers were hurt, it confirmed.

"One of our vehicles has been set on fire but was empty as the customers had earlier been transferred to another bus together with the driver," a spokesman for the company said.