A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after people were allegedly attacked with a “form of pepper spray” at a multistorey car park at Heathrow airport Terminal 3, police have said.

The Metropolitan police said armed officers were called to the terminal’s car park at about 8.11am to a report of people being assaulted.

A group of men allegedly sprayed people with what was believed to be a kind of pepper spray before leaving the scene, the Met said in a statement.

The London ambulance service responded and said it had treated 21 patients, of whom five were taken to hospital. Among those treated was a three-year-old girl.

Tom Bate, who was caught up in the incident after landing at Heathrow on Sunday morning, said he was shaken up after people began coughing and his throat burned

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