The Royal Military Police is investigating after a British Army training exercise reportedly descended into chaos, with a mass brawl breaking out between over 100 Gurkhas and Parachute Regiment soldiers.

An Army spokesman told Forces News:

"We can confirm that there was an incident involving soldiers during a training exercise in Kenya, this is under investigation by the Royal Military Police and it would be inappropriate to comment further."

They added, however, that "anyone found to have breached the high standards of behaviour we expect or to have committed a criminal offence will be dealt with appropriately".

Troops are reported to have fought with poles, bats and heavy machine-gun barrels during Exercise Askari Storm in Kenya on Thursday, according to the Sun newspaper.

It's said there's been bad blood between the units since a brawl during the same exercise two years ago.