Four arrested after intruders spray coloured gas in Indian parliament chamber protest

Two intruders who stormed India's parliament shouting and spraying coloured gas have been arrested, along with two accomplices.

MPs and security officials chased one of the two men who entered the chamber. He is seen in footage jumping from table to table.

Both men were eventually overpowered by security officials and frogmarched away.

The security breach took place on the anniversary of a deadly terror attack on India's parliament.

Lawmakers said the two men jumped into the well of the house from the visitors' gallery.

The incident occurred while lawmakers were in session in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's parliament. Both houses were suspended for a short period before the session resumed.

Parliament security detained a total of four people (Saket Gokhale MP)

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said: "We are investigating the matter and have asked Delhi Police to join the inquiry."

He added that according to the preliminary investigation, the smoke sprayed in the house appeared to be "harmless".

Police arrested the two intruders while two accomplices were arrested outside the chamber, Mr Birla said.

One of the arrested said she was a student protesting rising unemployment.

"People's voice is not being heard by the government. There can't be a dictatorship in the country," she told reporters as she was taken away by the police.

Lawmakers were in session in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's parliament (via REUTERS)

Lawmaker Danish Ali said: "Two people jumped from the public gallery and there was smoke. There was chaos all around. Both of them were overpowered by security officials."

Earlier in the day, President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders had paid tribute to the victims of the 2001 attack on parliament.

Fourteen people, including the five attackers, were killed on the day.

Karti Chidambaram, an MP from the Congress party, said he was waiting for his turn to speak when chaos broke out.

"Suddenly, it appeared that one person had fallen down from the visitors' gallery. Then we realised that it was a deliberate act of him jumping into the well. There was another person, both of them pulled out canisters which were emitting yellow smoke," he said.