Outrage after tipsy government employee attacks 3 foreign women footballers; held

Thiruvananthapuram: Police have arrested  Arun Kumar, an employee of Kozhikode Corporation, for attacking three foreign footballers of the Gokulam Kerala FC Women’s team.

The incident occurred on Tuesday late evening when the women’s team was leaving the Corporation stadium at Kozhikode after the day’s practice session.

Kumar, believed to be drunk, first threw a beer bottle at the team members and it fell down and broke. The glass shards injured the feet of the players – two from Ghana and one from Kenya.

Kumar allegedly pulled the hair of one player.

The police later took him into custody.