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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Looting and violence continues in London

Police dogs and their handlers walk past a burning car during the second night of civil disturbances in central Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.  (AP/Tim Hales)
A rioter walks through a burning barricade in Liverpool August 9, 2011. Violence flared in English cities and towns on Tuesday night but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.  (Reuters/Phil Noble)
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the media outside 10 Downing Street in London on August 10, 2011, following a fourth night of violence in Britain. Youths smashed their way into stores and torched cars in central England on Tuesday, police said, as Britain's worst riots for decades entered a fourth night. (AFP/Ben Stansall)
Looters take electrical goods after breaking into a store during the second night of civil disturbances in central Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011.  (AP/Tim Hales)
A rioter walks through a burning barricade in the Toxteth area of Liverpool on Wednesday August 10, 2011.  (AP/Peter Byrne)
British police vans are parked along a street of Hackney in north London, late on August 9, 2011. Britain's worst riots in decades raged into on August 10, as youths ran amok in Manchester and the industrial Midlands but London was quiet with 16,000 police swamping the streets to stem violence.  (AFP/Miguel Medina)
Rioters stand in front of a burning barricade in Liverpool August 9, 2011. Violence flared in English cities and towns on Tuesday night but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.  (Reuters/Phil Noble)
A worker cleans a laundry after overnight rioting and looting in the neighbourhood of Toxteth in Liverpool, northern England August 10, 2011. British cities began on Wednesday to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting by gangs of hooded youths copying the tactics of young Londoners who had rampaged through districts of the capital for three nights.  (Reuters/Phil Noble)
A riot policeman walks atop the roof of a kidnapped bus on August 9, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. The public transport bus was kidnapped by four men for more than one hour. Two of them flee and the other two surrended to the police after negotiations. According to local newspapers at least three people were injured.  (AFP/Antonio Scorza)
A burnt out caravan is pictured in Toxteth, Liverpool on August 10, 2011, following a fourth night of violence in Britain.  (AFP)
Police officers speak to men at the scene where three men were killed by a car in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, central England August 10, 2011. Police launched a murder inquiry in Birmingham after three Muslim men died after being run over by a car in the mayhem there. A friend of the men told BBC radio they had been part of a group of British Asians protecting their area from looters after attending Ramadan prayers at a mosque.  (Darren Staples )

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