By Gerard Couzens In Marbella For Mailonlline. One of the women, a year-old from Farnborough in Hampshire, suffered a broken nose after being punched in the face.
A second woman, a year-old from Essex, was taken to hospital semi-conscious with arm and head injuries. Witnesses described how the men, French-born but of Arabic origin, began to attack the young women in the upmarket resort of Puerto Banus near Marbella after one tried to touch up the teenager who suffered the broken nose.
Scroll down for video. Puerto Banus is an upmarket resort with a large yacht marina pictured and the incident is out of character with the area. A year-old man was arrested for assault and three of his friends were taken to a nearby police station where they were lined up in an identity parade.
Police are thought to be trying to identify other men involved in the incident who are said to have fled as officers arrived. The incident happened just before 6am on Tuesday morning in a road running behind Puerto Banus, named Julio Iglesias Avenue after the veteran crooner. Police intervened after spotting what a brawl involving 15 people. Once they separated the two groups, they saw one of the women was bleeding profusely from her nose and another was lying semi-conscious on the ground.
A friend of the injured pair told officers one of the men punched the British teenager in the face after a row turned violent. The men are understood to have travelled to the area from Seville. The two British women were taken to a nearby health centre before being taken to the Costa del Sol Hospital for treatment.
