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Rioting Engulf London for Third Day

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RIOTING ENGULF LONDON FOR THIRD DAY

The article is about the riots in London, was published in The Borneo Post on the 10th August 2011. Violence in London has escalated across London where police fought thousands of rioters and looters. Prime Minister, David Cameron were headed back to Britain due the crisis.

London faced riots on 1985 in Tottenham, of the Broadwater Farm housing estate when police constable Keith Blacklock was hacked to death. In this recent period, this is the worst crisis over the years. Groundbreaking scenes of rioting in London where buildings were buried, in Croydon, Peckham, and Lewisham in the city's south, rambled by the gang of looters on the streets of Hackney, Clapham, and Camden in the North and Ealing in the West.

Scotland in the other hands has charged over 1,700 officers to deal with London rebellion. Armoured cars were used to quash the rioters, As the nightfall, the police wielding the batons to push the youths back while the public were kept behind the police cordons, advised to stay with the police and to not return to their homes due to the safety of the public.

In Croydon as well, entire block of buildings that include a 100 years old family furniture business was absolutely blazing, huge flames and the smokes were aroused. The local residents were taken away ascribed to the fire spread. 26 years old man founded injured in a car with a gunshot wounds. The injured was serious and he was sent to the nearby hospital. Outside of Croydon itself, the streets condition and situation couldn't be averted. The streets met with a huge crowd of the swags. The cars were burning and the building too.

Firemen fought tooth and nail in the battle of a very terrible blaze in Clapham when the looters rifled their way through the prestige department store, Debenhams. Wealthy neighbourhoods were no exception too. The swags were walked all over the way into Michelin; a high starred restaurant- The Ledbury in Notting Hill. The rampages stole diner's phones, the plates off from the tables and attempted to take away the cash in the till.

First violence was erupted on Saturday in multiethnic area in Tottenham after a man was shot dead by police two days earlier (Thursday). The copycat criminal activity then spread to other districts of the British capital on Sunday and said that the violence will be reach to new districts on Monday. These violence activities broke out all the English cities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol. The police from West Midlands reported that they made 87 arrests of youths rap rampage in Birmingham overnight, while they were smashing shop windows and took away the merchandises. Meanwhile, Merseyside Police said they were dealing with disorder in the North West city of Liverpool where cars were flamed while Bristol officers fought the a mob of looters, around 150 youths and were quelled.

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