I was really surprised to read about how the first riot in Singapore since 40 years started.
Last night, a 33 year old Indian died after being run over by a bus in Little India; and that was how the riot started.
Yahoo News reported that two police cars were overturned as the front mirrors were crashed while 25 emergency vehicles were damaged and five vehicles were set on fire in the riot at the Race Course Road and Hampshire Road.
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- Singapore’s civil defence officers extinguish burning vehicles following a riot in Singapore’s Little India district late December 8, 2013. Local media said a mob of about 400 set fire to an ambulance and police cars during the riot on Sunday, which started after a bus knocked down a pedestrian. REUTERS/Dennis Thong/Lianhe Zaobao (SINGAPORE – Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
- The burnt shells of vehicles are pictured along Race Course Road following a riot near Singapore’s Little India district December 9, 2013. Local media said a mob of about 400 set fire to an ambulance and police cars during the riot on Sunday, which started after a bus knocked down a pedestrian. REUTERS/Stringer (SINGAPORE – Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
- Riot policemen watch burning vehicles during a riot in Singapore’s Little India district, late December 8, 2013.
- Officials stand around a bus with a smashed windshield following a riot in Singapore’s Little India district, December 9, 2013. A crowd set fire to vehicles and clashed with police in the Indian district of Singapore late on Sunday, in a rare outbreak of rioting in the city state. Television footage showed a crowd of people smashing the windscreen of a bus, and at least three police cars being flipped over. The Singapore Police Force said the riot started after a fatal traffic accident in the Little India area. REUTERS/Rob Dawson (SINGAPORE – Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
- A view from a high-rise flat shows two overturned police cars (C) and several other damaged vehicles along Race Course Road following a riot near Singapore’s Little India district December 9, 2013. Local media said a mob of about 400 set fire to an ambulance and police cars during the riot on Sunday, which started after a bus knocked down a pedestrian. REUTERS/Stringer (SINGAPORE – Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
- Police officers near a damaged motorcycle on Race Course Road after the riot.
- Police officers at the scene where the riot happened, standing near a bus with a smashed window.
- SINGAPORE, Singapore : Firemen douse a charred ambulance after a riot broke out in Singapore, in the early hours of December 9, 2013. A riot broke out among South Asian workers in Singapore late in the night of December 8, damaging police cars and other vehicles in the city state’s Little India district, eyewitnesses and local media said. The rare outbreak of public disorder in strictly controlled Singapore took place in an area normally packed with thousands of workers, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, on their day off. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear and the situation was brought under control within two hours, people on the scene told AFP. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN
- The whole section of Race Course Road where the riot happened, moments before the clean-up took place.
- A bus on Race Course Road with a pelted front window and much of the rest gone.