In UK looters attack regional centres as police are summoned to capital – VOR
Laaska News August 10,2011
Riots in Britain. Photo: EPA
Manchester has become a new centre of rioting in the UK tonight. After vast numbers of regionally stationed police officers had been summoned to maintain calm in the capital London burglars and looters relocated to bigger cities across the country with Midlands and Manchester being affected worst of all.
Gangs of youngsters have been roaming Manchester in search of new shops and properties to loot, the focus of their attention being jewelers’, designer clothes and accessory stores.
In West Bromwich and Wolverhampton near Birmingham two cars were torched and over 200 young people clashed with the police.
After three nights of unrest London has been patrolled by some 16,000 police officers.
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According to the Associated Press news agency, mass riots have spread to Bristol, in the southwest of England, – the fourth city following London, Birmingham and Liverpool where young rioters have staged pogroms.
The riots erupted in protest against the killing of a local in a shootout with police in Tottenham, on the outskirts of London, a few days ago. As a result, spontaneous protests have spilt over into pillage and looting. 35 police officers have already been injured in clashes with the hooligans.
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