In pictures: Riots rock Singapore's Little India
This photo made available by The New Paper shows a police car flipped on its side and set on fire after rioters went on a rampage in SingaÂpore’s Little India district late on December 8. Singapore faced shocking scenes of burning cars and littered- A police car is in flames after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India. Sunday’s violence was the first riot in Singapore since racial disturbances in 1969. Since then, the government has imposed strict controls on protests.
- Riot police stand guard as a vehicle goes up in flames after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India. At least five vehicles including three police cars were torched in the violence.
- The windscreen of an ambulance is smashed after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India. “The riot was an isolated incident arising from the unlawful actions of an unruly mob reacting to a fatal traffic accident,” the Singapore PM said in a
- Riot police stand guard as a passerby cycles past after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India on Sunday. PM Lee said there could be “no excuse” for the rampage that left 39 police and civil defence staff injured, and 25 vehicles — including
- Police vehicles go up in flames after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India on Sunday. Police said the 27 men arrested were aged between 23 and 45, and included 24 Indian nationals, two BanglaÂdeshis and one Singapore permanent resident.
- Rioters on a rampage. Police said about 400 people were involved in the riot, and that 27 South Asian workers had been arrested on charges punishable by up to seven years in prison as well as caning.
- A man being led away by police after rioters went on a rampage. The trouble started after a private bus fatally knocked down a Tamilian, 33-year-old Sakthivel Kumaravelu, around 9.20 pm at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in
- Police cars are overturned after a riot broke out in Little India. Commissioner of Police Ng Joo Hee also denounced the violence as 'intolerable'. "Rioting, destruction of property, it is not the Singapore way," he told a news conference.
- Riot police cordon off the area after a riot broke out in Singapore's Little India on Sunday.
- Picture shows two plainclothes policemen apprehending a man after riots. The hour-long fracas on Sunday night, triggered when an Indian construction worker was struck and killed by a private bus in the Little India district, compelled Prime Minister
This photo made available by The New Paper shows a police car flipped on its side and set on fire after rioters went on a rampage in SingaÂpore’s Little India district late on December 8. Singapore faced shocking scenes of burning cars and littered
In pictures: Riots rock Singapore's Little India
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