WASHINGTON: Protesters surged into a Senate office building in Washington on Tuesday, chanting slogans for about 15 minutes before police intervened, participants said.

Two people were arrested, according to a cameraman recording the scene in the atrium of Hart Senate Office Building for the website of the Stop the Machine protests that began last Thursday in the US capital.

“We win! One hundred per cent success!” one of the protesters said to the camera, claiming that the snap demonstration had resulted in a “lock down” of all Senate offices.

“We voiced our opinion, that we are the 99 per cent, that we are against war,” added another protester, Leah Bolger, a former US Navy commander who is vice president of Veterans for Peace.

Stop the Machine has been occupying Freedom Plaza near the White House since Thursday. A second, younger group called Occupy DC, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, has been in downtown McPherson Square since Oct 1.—AFP