Three youths have been arrested after the battered body of a teenager was found in a park in West Yorkshire.

Amar Aslam, aged 17, was found “brutally” attacked in Crow Nest Park in Dewsbury at 1930 BST on Sunday.

Mr Aslam, of Dewsbury, was found with head injuries in a walled garden by two members of the public.

Two youths aged 15 and a man aged 20 are being questioned by detectives at separate police stations across West Yorkshire.

Police are looking into suggestions the death was linked to a gang fight. They said Mr Aslam, who was Asian, suffered a “sustained and brutal attack”.

Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik said the attack was unlikely to have been racially motivated.

He said: “I can now confirm that the three men who are in custody are actually all Asian, which means that the race motive so far, perhaps, is not one that might be the cause of the death.”

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