Video shows vandals smashing up a soccer team's defibrillator just hours after Christian Eriksen's Euro 2020 cardiac arrest

• Vandals smashed up a soccer team's defibrillator just hours after Christian Eriksen's Euro 2020 cardiac arrest.
• Buxted FC in East Sussex, England said the damage was "heartbreaking."
• Video of the incident shows a man repeatedly stamping on the kit and throwing it to the ground.

Vandals smashed up a soccer team's defibrillator just hours after Danish player Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the field during a Euro 2020 match.

Buxted FC in East Sussex, England said the damage, caught on CCTV in the early hours of Sunday morning, was "heartbreaking."

Footage of the incident was shared to the club's Twitter account, and has now been viewed over 1.3 million times.

The video show two people, one who appears to be male and one who appears to be female. The male is more active in the footage, repeatedly throwing the defibrillator to the floor, and stamping on it numerous times. Towards the end of the video, the pair put the smashed defibrillator back into a wall mounted box, before both of them spit into the box.

Sussex Police say a 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage.

The incident happened in the wake of Christian Eriksen's sudden collapse during his country's defeat to Finland on Saturday. The 29-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated by medical staff.

It is unclear if the incident in Buxted is linked to Eriksen's collapse in any way.

Speaking Sunday, Danish team doctor Morten Boesen said the Inter Milan midfielder was "gone" when he rushed to him on the field, and that his life was saved by a defibrillator kit.

"Those things save people's lives and someone has come and trashed it," Buxton chairman Richard Turner told the BBC.

"The whole world saw what happened to Christian Eriksen on Saturday so why would anyone think that's ok?"

Turner added that the response to the incident had been overwhelming, with many people offering money to help replace the defibrillator kit.

"Social media has been brilliant, it's amazing what people can do when people come together," he said.