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PANAJI: A family holiday turned into a horror story for 50 residents of Vasai, Mumbai due to a petty scuffle over breakfast in Merces. Around four youth clashed with the tourists, who had come in a chartered bus, injuring several men and women with swords and knives. The youth also damaged the bus, said Goa police officials.

Four tourists, including a lady and a senior citizen were having breakfast at a local café when an argument erupted between a local man who was sitting behind the tourists. The argument soon escalated into a fist fight but was resolved by the manager of the café, a waiter at the café said.

According to the Police, the youth called up his friends who came with a sword and choppers to attack the tourists. Meanwhile the tourists boarded their bus to return to Mumbai. “The bus had just reached A Lua restaurant when the boys came by motorcycles and stopped the bus. They broke the windshield and attacked the driver,” a Police official said.

The four youth then attacked the men with the swords and choppers, even as the women who were on the bus tried to intervene and placate the angry youth.

“We had said sorry. Why did he have to slap us? Why hit our women,” one of the tourist Prasad Gandan said.

