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A woman has been arrested in connection with the racist abuse of two Muslim women on a London bus, after video footage of the incident went viral on social media.

The 36-year-old woman, who has not been named, was arrested on Friday at her home in Willesden Green, north-west London, on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence on the No 206 bus.

The Metropolitan police said she remained in custody at a north London police station as inquiries continued.

The incident came days after the government ordered police forces to increase data-gathering on Islamophobic attacks.

Video footage taken by a fellow passenger shows a woman, accompanied by a child in a pushchair, shouting abuse at two Muslim women, and continuing after the bus driver comes out of his cab twice to try to defuse the situation.

At one point the woman in the video can be heard swearing and telling the women to “go back to your own cou