UK RIOTS SPREAD
MANCHESTER, U.K. - Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars in Salford and Manchester, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.
In central Manchester, police said a clothes shop was set alight. "I can confirm a shop is on fire and 200 youths that gathered in the city center have been chased by riot police and dispersed. Seven arrests have been made so far," a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said.
Further south in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, cars were burned and stores raided.- A gang of up to 40 men firebombed a police station in the central English city of Nottingham but no injuries were reported, police said.
- "Canning Circus Police Station (in central Nottingham) fire bombed by a group of 30-40 males. No reports of injuries at this stage," said Nottinghamshire Police in a
message on their official Twitter feed. A message later said the fire had been extinguished and eight people had been arrested. - In Liverpool, a Reuters reporter saw police with riot shields pushing back youths hurling bricks.
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RIOT ERUPT IN LONDON AFTER FATAL POLICE SHOOTING
TOTTENHAM, U.K. - The gritty north London neighborhood of Tottenham exploded in anger Saturday night after a young man was shot to death by police.Two patrol cars, a building and a double-decker bus were torched as rioters clashed with officers in front of the Tottenham Police Station, where people had gathered to demand "justice" for the death of a 29-year-old killed in an apparent gunfight.
According to local resident, David Akinsanya, 46, the situation is really bad. There are two police cars on fire. I'm feeling unsafe.- Sirens could be heard across the city as authorities rushed reinforcements to the scene. Shop windows in Tottenham were smashed as residents looted stores, pushing shopping carts full of stolen goods down the street.
Officers in riot gear and on horseback pushed up against the demonstrators. Akinsanya put the number of demonstrators at between 400 and 500. Police said about 300 people had gathered.Miles from the tourist hotspots of central London, Tottenham is one of the most deprived areas in all of England, with nearly half of all children living in poverty, according to campaigners. The area is very diverse and home to one of the capital's biggest black populations.
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