A manhunt has been launched after a flare was hurled through the window of a hotel housing asylum seekers.

The pyrotechnic was hurled through a ground-floor window at the Highfield House Hotel in Southampton at around 2.15am on Sunday.

The flames were thankfully extinguished and nobody was reported hurt.

Officers and investigating the incident and searching for two people seen fleeing the hotel after the incident.

One was wearing a dark hooded top and a face covering, while the other donned a white hoodie.

Additional police patrols are to be carried out in the area this week.

A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary said: ‘Thankfully, the fire caused by the flare was quickly put out and nobody was injured.

‘Enquiries are under way to establish the exact circumstances of the inciden

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