SHOCKING footage has captured a brawl between two women at a popular Italian beach as they battled over a sunbed.
The pair are seen wrestling and grabbing each other’s hair on the packed sand as fellow beach-goers watch on.
Two women were caught on camera wrestling in a wild beach brawl
They continued to fight as fellow beach-goers rushed in to break them up
Videos capturing the pandemonium have since spread online
Several videos have since circulated online and gone viral.
A local government official said two women demanded sunbeds by the sea to gain a better view than those behind them who had already been on the beach for hours, Il Mattino reported.
When their request was refused the women locked horns, grappling and pulling at each other’s hair as the sunny sands suddenly looked more like a UFC octagon.
The furious women then turned on lifeguards who had tried to escort them away, according to witnesses.
The fight raged on with a witness saying it took “more than half an hour to restore calm”.
The bitter battle occurred in the coastal resort of Varcaturo, near Naples.
Member of parliament Francesco Emilio Borrelli slammed the fight as an unimaginable and said the women needed to be “re-educated”.
In a Facebook statement, he said: “A fight between women in broad daylight, in front of families and children.
“For what? A sunbed on the seashore. We have surpassed all imagination.
“Those who think they can do what they want, sowing panic on a beach, cannot go unpunished.
“We ask that these women are identified and brought to justice as soon as possible.”
The women, whose faces can’t be made out in footage, fight on as beach-goers rush in to try and break up the battle.
Quarrels over sunbeds are not uncommon across the European summer, with tourists filmed racing for prime positioning at resorts.
But wild physical altercations are rarely seen.
In Greece, drones have been deployed to patrol over sunbed areas taken over by tourists.
Irate residents even formed a protest group dubbed “the beach towel movement”, forcing authorities to take action.
Meanwhile tensions could boil in Majorca this summer with hotel operators warning of a sunbed shortage.
Beaches of Cala San Vicenç, Albercuix and Tamarells in Pollensa do not have proper sunbeds or umbrellas for tourists to take sunbaths, Majorca Daily Bulletin reported.
Earlier this month a Brit family boasted of their early-morning methods to claim sunbeds by the pool in resorts.
TikTok user Hollie Harper told of how her family set up camp while on holiday in Crete as early as 6:45am, despite the hotel announcing sunbeds can only be claimed from 7am.
Leaving the sunbed for breakfast would give hotel staff the power to throw their towels away, but Hollie said the Harpers were “all willing to sacrifice breakfast for the greater good”.
The women involved need re-educating, a politician said
The member of parliament said the two women ‘cannot go unpunished’