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The owner of a new Asian clothing shop in Hull city centre said he is “scared for the future” after his window was smashed within a day of opening.

Bashir Siraj, 50, runs the Blue Sea store with his family in Prospect Street .

The family celebrated the shop opening on Friday, but returned at 9am on Saturday morning to find it had been targeted by vandals.

Mr Siraj said: “There is no other shop like this in the city centre, or in Hull, so we wanted to bring this diversity.

“Things like this are so disgusting, and it makes you scared for what is going to happen in the future.

“I would say it could be a racial attack, otherwise they would have done the same to all the other shops in the street.”

Mr Siraj said he thought the window display – which has a variety of Asian dresses and clothing – could have made the shop vulnerable.

“It is not just the damage to the shop, it is the damage something like this causes to the people as well,” he said.

“The psychological impact on us is massive. I think this is a message.

“What they have done is wrong. We need to be active to catch the person who has done this.”

CCTV footage from inside the shop captured the attack at about 3.45am on Saturday morning.

A man, wearing a white jacket, was seen to approach the window, before leaning against it with his arm over his face.

He then took a step back, and kicked the window, before walking off. The attack has left broken glass all over the floor inside the shop.

It is not yet known how much it will cost the owners to repair the window.

“I am worried about how we stop this sort of thing from happening again,” Mr Siraj said.

“You do expect things like this to happen – people trying to break in and steal things – but you do not expect this on the very first night after opening.”

Anyone with information on the incident can call police on 101, quoting log number 16/24153/18.

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