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Witnesses described chaotic scenes outside a nightclub resembling a 'terrorist attack' as around 60 revellers clashed in the streets and three were injured in a hit and run.
Two people were taken to hospital with serious injuries after they were hit by a car which then sped away from the scene outside the Sugar Hut nightclub in Brentwood High Street, Essex around 3am this morning.
Actor Nick Nevern filmed the pandemonium and described how dozens of people ran for their lives as a car mowed down people in the street during the mass brawl.
Police said the car then drove away from the scene following the incident in the early hours on Sunday.
Nick Nevern tweeted: 'Wanna wish everyone who suffered injury outside the @sugarhut tonight the best of wishes... truly scary scenes.'
Brentwood High Street was closed off this morning as officers launched an investigation and nightclub owner Mick Norcross told Essex Live there was an 'ongoing police incident'.
The Sugar Hut was made famous after it regularly featured in the ITVBe reality show, The Only Way Is Essex.
Mr Nevern, who has appeared in films including Adulthood and TV shows The Bill and Eastenders, said: ‘People can’t handle the Sugar Hut.
‘Okay guys, basically what’s happened is there was there was a massive fight and a car has just driven through 20 people, mowing people down.
‘This has turned into some sort of terrorist attack. This guy asked for a picture with me and they beat him.
‘We’ve come out the Sugar Hut and two rival factions were fighting.
'Out of nowhere a car literally just drive through the whole group of them he then turned around and then literally ploughed through them all again.
‘He went through them once and then turned around and went through them again.’
John Rolfe, who runs Brentwood sightseeing company, Towiepedia, said: 'There were about 100 people standing around.
'I don't really know what started the fighting but a fight broke out which escalated into I should think about 50 or 60 people were involved at one point.
'Two or three people look as if they were quite badly hurt during that time I was one guy went down and he looked as if he was unconscious and got dragged off the street.'
An employee at a nearby off license, Kathirgamapillcie Anpalagan, 37, told Essex Live: 'I came down to open up at 8 and it was all sealed off.
'I asked and apparently some people are seriously injured. It was all closed.
'It was something from last night outside the sugar hut- a big fight I think.
'I've been here three years and we've never had anything like this. It's very shocking to me.'
A police spokesman added: 'We received calls about a fight between a large group of people outside the Sugar Hut night club.
'Two men and one woman were then struck by a vehicle, which drove away from the scene.
'They have all been taken to hospital, two with serious injuries.'
Police are appealing to anyone who witnessed or filmed the incident on their phones to get in contact with Brentwood CID on 101