GANGS of teenagers running riot left one man with a fractured eye socket and caused chaos in Poole bus station.

Two violent incidents in a week are the latest to be investigated by police following a series of frightening episodes.

Police were called on Saturday, March 23, after scuffles broke out between a group of around 20 youths, a bus driver and a passenger.

Witnesses said the children had been running through the bus station throwing loyalty cards and sugar sachets, taken from the Subway restaurant, at one another.

Then one of the teens was removed from a bus by an irate driver after being sick.

Moments later violence erupted after another teenage boy sprayed the contents of his water bottle at the driver and one of his stunned passengers.

One witness, who asked not to be named, said: “There were about 20 of the teenagers, about 15 or 16-years-old.

“They were flinging the loyalty cards around like missiles, and one of the boys had sugar rubbed in his eyes by someone else in the gang.

“His eyes were streaming, and he disappeared for a bit. As some of the girls got onto the number five bus, the boy with sugar in his eyes came back and also got on.”

The witness said the boy had also been tripped up by the gang, hit his head and may have passed out for a bit.

“The next thing I knew, one of the girls on the bus shouted ‘he’s being sick’,” said the witness. “Then one of the bus drivers threw him off the bus.”

It was at this point another boy sprayed the driver and passenger with the liquid in his squeezy bottle, sparking the violence.

“The last I saw before the crowds descended, was the bus driver and the passenger rolling around the floor throwing punches,” added the witness.

The incident unfolded at around 8.30pm, a week after another attack when teenage thugs hit a man on the head with a bottle when he asked them to stop spitting at him.

Shocked Carl Desborough suffered a fractured eye socket in the cowardly assault, which took place while he waited at the bus station at 6.30pm on Saturday, March 16.

The 43-year-old NHS employee from Broadstone told the Echo: “It was totally unprovoked.

“I’d been standing outside Subway and there were teenagers spitting on the floor in my direction so I asked them to stop.”

Initially the group, of about a dozen youths aged 14 or 15, moved away, but moments later one of them attacked Mr Desborough with the bottle.

“He hit me once around the head, then they jumped on the number five bus to Canford Heath and left.

“Thankfully there was another lady at the bus station who saw what happened and she came running to help,” said Mr Desborough. “These kids are just unstoppable.

“The police have this lovely new station in Poole but it is not manned all the time. A lot of their resources come from Bournemouth, which is a bit ridiculous really.”

Mr Desborough discovered he’d fractured his eye socket after visiting medics the following day.