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Manchester City fans were forced to barricade themselves in a bar after being caught up in a violent incident in Spain.

Fans were sitting drinking at O’Neills Irish Pub, in Seville, when violence broke out on Monday night, the Manchester Evening News reported .

Witnesses said a group of 50 people with covered faces - who they claim were Sevilla fans - rushed into the pub with ‘batons’.

City fans say the gang then broke through glass windows and doors and sent chairs and tables flying as a fight broke out.

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One witness reported that a group of masked people came into the bar yelling ‘hooligans’ and said several people were injured and bleeding following the incident.

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Thousands of City supporters have travelled to the Spanish town ahead of Tuesday night’s clash with Sevilla.

One season ticket holder said that women and young men were seen ‘cowering in the corner’ as the fighting broke out inside and outside the pub.

City fan Paul Jones said he was watching the Tottenham vs Aston Villa game when the fracas began.

He said: “We were in O’Neills all having a laugh and watching the Tottenham Villa game. The next thing all the windows went through and people were trying to kick the doors in.

“There were about 50 people trying to get in and I’m sure they were Sevilla fans.

“They were shouting and quite aggressive and a lot had their faces covered with scarves.

“They had big batons and started smashing all the side of the pub up.

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“The City fans tried to defend themselves. They were shutting the doors and trying to stay in the pub.

“They were smashing the pub windows and doors.

“The City fans were pretty scared. There were a lot of women and young lads there. There was a man and woman cowering in the corner.

“A few pint glasses were getting chucked about and I think some of them had blades.

“When it finished they ran off.”

Paul, 26, who follows City at all their European matches, said he has never encountered this kind of trouble before.

He said: “Every single piece of glass was smashed. There were chairs thrown everywhere, cars had been smashed in at the side of the bar.

“I saw lots of people with cuts and bruises. Someone told me a woman had been put in an ambulance. There was one guy bleeding quite badly from the head.”

Paul - who has travelled to Seville with his dad, sister and friends - said he managed to leave the pub in a taxi.

He said: “There was a room full of City fans in the pub and we weren’t causing any trouble. Everybody was having a right good laugh and suddenly this happens.

“You don’t expect trouble when you go to Seville. I always chat to the fans from the other teams and it’s part of the fun.

“This was just unbelievable.”

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One eyewitness said the incident was ‘horrible’.

She said: “Some people came into the bar and they were wearing masks.

”They began shouting ‘hooligans, hooligans’. They were fighting and throwing chairs everywhere.

“It all happened so quickly. It was over in 10 minutes.

“The fighting was really scary. Some people ran out of the bar which was packed as they wanted to get away. I think someone was injured. There was somebody with blood on their head.

“The police came and ambulances came too.”

Another Blues fan, who witnessed the incident said some fans who were ‘badly injured’ in the incident were helped by City fans after the fight.

She said: “The front door was completely smashed in and the back windows all smashed in.

“Chairs were being thrown and some had batons.”

Police on the ground told reporters that two City fans had minor injuries and that there had been no arrests.

The trouble comes two weeks after ugly clashes in Manchester ahead of City’s home tie against Sevilla.

A group of Polish fans attacked Spanish fans at Sinclair’s Oyster Bar in Exchange Square.

The incident is believed to be part of a two-year feud between Sevilla fans and supporters of Slask Wroclaw dating back to a clash between the two groups in Spain before a Europa League tie in 2013.

Police have previously stressed how the trouble in Exchange Square two weeks ago is unconnected to Manchester City’s supporters.