Secret tunnel in US synagogue leads to brawl between police and worshippers

Hasidic Jewish students sit behind a breach in the wall (Bruce Schaff via AP)

A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers have been arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic synagogue in New York City, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway.

The discovery of the tunnel at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, prompted an emergency structural inspection by the city on Tuesday.