London Quiet Overnight, Riots Flare across England

World | August 10, 2011, Wednesday // 05:49|  views

The riots in London started on Saturday, and have already spread to other English cities. Photo from pravasitoday.co

After seeing three nights of street violence, the British capital London has been largely quiet overnight but street riots have emerged in other English cities.

The fears of a fourth night of looting in London have failed to materialize after the Met Police deployed some 16 000 officers to patrol the city of 8 million people, compared with 6 000 the night before.

Quarters in the city of Manchester in northwestern England, however, saw groups of rampaging youth clash with police, loot stores, and set stores and cars on fire, the BBC reports. A BBC cameraman has been attacked.  

Similar scenes of street violence have taken place overnight in districts in Liverpool, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and West Bromwich, with smaller-scale incidents in Birmingham, Leicester, the Midlands, Milton Keynes north of London, and Gloucester in the southwest.

Senior officials from the police in Manchester have reiterated earlier conclusions that the rioters do not have an agenda of political protest, and have described their looting sprees simply as criminal behavior.

A total of 685 people have been arrested in London since the street violence erupted on Saturday. On Tuesday, a 26-year-old man died after being shot in Croydon, south of London, the first fatality of the riots.

The first riots broke out on Saturday in London's Tottenham district, when a protest over the police shooting of a suspect two days earlier led to violence.

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