Singapore/Jakarta: Police in Bali are searching for a man believed to be an Australian tourist after a wild brawl outside a beach club on Tuesday night.
Four security guards were injured in the fight with a group of shirtless men, local media reported, with one guard suffering “bite wounds” and another taken to hospital with broken teeth and a head injury.
A video of the fight outside Finns beach club in Canggu shows the combatants hitting each other with pieces of wood and throwing punches. At one point, one of the tourists strikes a security guard with what appears to be a bollard.
As the brawl eases into a stand-off, a man wearing shorts and a backpack is heard yelling across the divide: “C’mon! Let’s go, bro!”
Bali police are still looking for the three tourists seen in the video, and their nationalities could not be confirmed to this masthead on Wednesday night. But Badung police spokesman Ipda Putu Sukarma told the Bali Sun an Australian man, whom he identified only as LD, triggered the chaos after bumping into a woman inside the club about 9.40pm.
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“The incident triggered LD’s emotions, leading to a heated argument,” Sukarma said.
“LD then grabbed another guest by the neck. Security intervened to break up the fight, but LD responded by making obscene gestures toward them.”
Efforts to remove LD did not go well, and the situation escalated 15 minutes later in the carpark.
