Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dao Xuan Truong, head of the Nha Trang Ward Police, on Saturday said the unit had detained Doan Anh Quoc (23 years old), Nguyen Thanh Dat (38), and Huynh Thanh Danh (27), all residents of Khanh Hoa Province, to probe their actions causing public disorder.
According to the police, in monitoring information on social media, authorities took note of a 24-second clip on Facebook that has drawn public attention showing a group of Vietnamese youths using weapons to chase and beat a group of foreigners on the street in the popular beach town Nha Trang.
The police then verified the incident occurred on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang Ward, and summoned three suspects for questioning.
All three admitted their part in the attack, which occurred just after 4am on January 27.
The tourists were sitting outside of Q'Bar at 104 Nguyen Thien Thuat Street. This group got into a dispute and argument with another foreigner.
Seeing this, Dat, who was working at Q'Bar, intervened but was struck by one of the tourists.
Witnessing the scene, Quoc grabbed a pool cue, a wooden stick and an iron bar from inside the bar. He handed the iron bar to Danh. Quoc armed himself with the pool cue and gave Dat the wooden stick.
The group then chased and beat the four foreigners from in front of Q'Bar out into the middle of Nguyen Thien Thuat Street. Once the tourists fled, Quoc's group returned to the bar and resumed normal business.
The three Vietnamese are unharmed, the status of the foreigners involved in the altercation is not yet known.
Police are now tracking down the four assaulted foreign tourists to further investigate the matter.
