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Someone called the cops to report a 'mass killing' after mistaking yoga students lying still on the floor for dead people

Sep 8, 2023, 15:48 IST
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The cafe, which is located in the United Kingdom, said it was actually just students meditating in a yoga class (not pictured). fizkes via Getty Images
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Someone mistook a group of meditating yoga students as the victims of a "mass killing" and made a police report.

The Seascape Cafe in Lincolnshire, England, said in a statement that the police rushed to their building on Wednesday night after receiving a report of a mass killing.

"If anyone heard the mass of police sirens in Chapel St Leonard's at 9:30 pm last night, then please be reassured," said the statement, which was published Thursday.

"They were on their way to the Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building. Having seen several people laying on the floor….Which actually turned out to be the Yoga Class in meditation," the cafe said in the statement.

Seascape Cafe is located in Lincolnshire's North Sea Observatory. The marine observatory opened in 2018 and hosts exhibitions in the local area, per the Lincolnshire County Council's website.

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Seascape Cafe's statement added that the observatory "has lots of Yoga classes happening in the evenings" and asked visitors to be mindful of this.

"We are not part of any mad cult or crazy clubs," the statement continued.

Yoga instructor Millie Laws told the BBC that she was teaching seven students at Seascape Cafe on Wednesday evening. Laws noticed two people with dogs looking through the cafe's windows but didn't think too much about it at first.

"I didn't know until after we left that these people phoned in saying that there was a mass murderer; they were wearing a robe, and they were walking over all of the people, and it looked like some kind of ritual, and that the people on the floor were actually dead," Laws said.

A spokesperson for the Lincolnshire Police told Insider that the report was made "with good intentions."

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"A call was made following concerns for the occupants of the North Sea Observatory, at Chapel St Leonards," the spokesperson said. "Officers attended, we're happy to report everyone was safe and well."

"I feel really bad for whoever the person was, who that would, of course, have been terrifying. So I do feel for them," Laws told the BBC.

"But at the same time, you've got to see the lighter side of it," she added.

Representatives for Seascape Cafe did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Editor's note: September 8, 2023 — This story has been updated with comments from a Lincolnshire Police spokesperson.

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