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A Birmingham cinema was evacuated after a massive machete brawl broke out with "young girls" involved and around 100 people fighting with police.

Armed cops with dogs and tasers are at Birmingham Star City cinema where police have been attacked.

West Midlands Police have confirmed five arrests were made and officers received minor facial injuries.

Those arrested are a girl aged 13, a girl and boy both aged 14 and a 19-year-old man.

They were all held on suspicion of assaulting police. In addition, a boy aged 14 was held on suspicion of obstructing police.

Cinema goers were evacuated with some midway through watching films. Witnesses said that youths were fighting over the newly released gangster film Blue Story.

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In addition to the machetes, a knife was recovered from a roundabout near to the venue. Officers are working to understand the reason for the trouble.

Supt Ian Green, from Birmingham police, said: “This was a major outbreak of trouble which left families who were just trying to enjoy a night out at the cinema understandably frightened.

“We worked quickly to move the crowds on, but were met with a very hostile response and officers had to draw Tasers to restore order.

“Thankfully, the injuries to our officers were very minor. We’ve also recovered two machetes and a knife, and it’s clear that some of those who went to Star City last night were intent on causing trouble.

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“We’ve had a great response from the public who have been very supportive of our officers. We understand that families with young children will have been left upset by what they saw last night, but we urge people to appreciate that our aim last night was to protect the public and restore order, and that’s what we achieved.

“We’re aware of a number of images and videos circulating on social media which appear to show those involved in last night’s violence.

“We are assessing those and have already had a number of phone calls from members of the public giving us the names of people they believe were involved last night.

“I’d ask anyone with images or video who has not yet got in touch already to do so that we can make further arrests.”

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The incident at the cinema caused chaos in Birmingham city centre with warnings of delays of up to 90 minutes for drivers.

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One witness reportedly said: "That's probably one of the scariest moments of my life. Me and my daughter were in a queue to watch frozen, loads of little kids there, all dressed up and everything, then these girls jumped on another girl and loads of these kids just started fighting.

"Armed police came with Tasers. All the people that were fighting run off into the cinema. There's about 15 to 20 police cars. I'm shaking.

A University of Salford journalism student Rachel Allison said: “Just came to see the new blue story film, standing in line for snacks when a fight breaks out behind my brother - worst thing is, it’s young girls fighting.

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"Star city now closed.

"The police were very aggressive there was lots of little kids there. My sister who is 11 and they was pointing the Tasers in our face."

One woman tweeted: “Not been to star city for years now I’m glad I don’t. We were driving back from Digbeth, I’ve never seen so many police.”

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Mr Khan, manager of Pepe’s Restaurant at the centre told BirminghamLive: "I heard shouting and screaming outside the restaurant. I understand a big fight started in the cinema.

"There were so many people running past the restaurant, I’d say around 60 to 70 were involved.

"The police escorted everyone out.

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"We’ve heard that the cinema has had to empty the screens and are not letting anyone else in. I guess people who have bought tickets will get a refund.

"Our restaurant is still open, as is the restaurant next door."

Another witness, who was at the complex, said: "I have never seen police so aggressive. Everyone dressed up. They were all crying. It was a group of girls started on this one girl. Someone separated it at first.

"The other girls friend started punching her. Security came and broke it up then loads of police come. They ran into the cinema screens. Altogether at least 25 people that ran into the cinema rooms. We were right by the cinema rooms waiting to get popcorn, had paid for tickets online.

"We couldn't stay in the queue, They pointed the Taser at us and said we had to get out. They threatened to shoot these innocent boys near us.

"The Taser was pointed at us about a metre away. She just kept waving it around.

"Security guard started pushing us out."