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U.K. police arrest 6 after London synagogue attack

WATCH ABOVE: Video of the synagogue attack was caught on camera

TORONTO – British police arrested six people after they tried to storm their way into a synagogue in north London early Sunday morning.

Video of the incident was posted to YouTube showing a group of about 20 youths trying to force their way into a synagogue in Stamford Hill.

According to Reuters, one worshipper suffered minor injuries when he tried to prevent the group from entering the building.

A Jewish man surveys a damaged door outside the Ahavas Torah synagogue in the Stamford Hill area of north London on March 22, 2015. Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty Images

“The incident is being treated as an anti-Semitic incident, due to remarks made by one of the group,” London’s Metropolitan police said in a statement. “At this early stage, there is no suggestion that this was a far-right or extremist attack but rather the completely unacceptable actions of a drunken group.”

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Police believe the group had walked to the area from a house party nearby, Reuters reported.

Four men and two were women were arrested.

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