Activists from Just Stop Oil have been arrested after throwing tins of soup over Vincent Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery - and then gluing themselves to a nearby wall.
A video has emerged on Twitter of the incident at the London gallery this morning. Two young women identified themselves as Anna Holland, 20, and 21-year-old Phoebe Plummer.
The pair can be seen in the clip kneeling down in front of the already defaced painting holding tins of Heinz Tomato Soup, reports the Mirror.
In a tweet from the Metropolitan Police Events account, the force said: "Officers were rapidly on scene at the National Gallery this morning after two Just Stop Oil protesters threw a substance over a painting and then glued themselves to a wall."Both have been arrested for criminal damage & aggravated trespass.
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