[Zafina]

Updated at: 0755 PST, Wednesday, August 10, 2011


LONDON: The worst riots in Britain for decades spread to new cities on a fourth night as youths ran amok in Manchester and the industrial Midlands, after 16,000 police took to the streets of London.

In Manchester, Britain's third-largest city, youths smashed shop windows and looted shops and chased photographers away from the scene, in what police described as the worst violence in 30 years.

Elsewhere, hooded rioters set fire to buildings in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton in central England and a police station in nearby Nottingham was firebombed, although there were no reported injuries.

Looters also targeted shops in the second city of Birmingham for another night and police were pelted with missiles in the north west city of Liverpool.

But in London there was no repeat of the wave of violence which left parts of the capital in flames on Monday night, as vigilante mobs took to the streets to defend their communities.


A 26-year-old man found with a gunshot wound to the head in a car in Croydon died in hospital on Tuesday, police said, becoming the first fatality of the riots. (AFP)

 

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