Riot in Singapore's Little India
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EA sealed prison bus (L) leaves the Subordinate court in Singapore on December 10, 2013. Singapore on December 10 filed charges against 24 Indian nationals who allegedly took part in its first riot for over 40 years, as officials and activists warned against inciting racial hatred over the incident. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN
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EA sealed prison bus (L) leaves the Subordinate court in Singapore on December 10, 2013. Singapore on December 10 filed charges against 24 Indian nationals who allegedly took part in its first riot for over 40 years, as officials and activists warned against inciting racial hatred over the incident. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN
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EA sealed prison bus (C) leaves the Subordinate court in Singapore on December 10, 2013. Singapore on December 10 filed charges against 24 Indian nationals who allegedly took part in its first riot for over 40 years, as officials and activists warned against inciting racial hatred over the incident. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN
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Two policemen check a back street next to a MRT train station where riots took place in Singapore's Little India district late on Dcember 8, 2013
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Singapore PM says Little India riot an isolated incident, panel to probe into it
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Riot in Singapore
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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
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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
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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
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A police car with pelted window seen on Race Course Road.
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A group of men handcuffed at Race Course Road after the riot took place.
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Police officers at the scene where the riot happened, standing near a bus with a smashed window.
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A completely burnt vehicle seen on Race Course Road.
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The whole section of Race Course Road where the riot happened, moments before the clean-up took place.
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A flipped over stretcher seen on Race Course Road after the riot.
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A bus on Race Course Road with a pelted front window and much of the rest gone.
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Police officers near a damaged motorcycle on Race Course Road after the riot.
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The other end of the cordoned area on Race Course Road where some police officers were stationed.
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The burnt shells of vehicles are pictured along Race Course Road following a riot near Singapore's Little India district
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Two overturned police cars and several other damaged vehicles are seen following a riot near Singapore's Little India district
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Police officers attend to a man in Singapore's Little India district following a riot
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Singapore's Deputy PM Teo and Minister in Prime Minister's Office Iswaran look at the site of two burnt vehicles following a riot in Singapore's Little India district
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Officials stand around a bus with a smashed windshield following a riot in Singapore's Little India district
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A police officer walks with a riot shield following a riot in Singapore's Little India district
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A riot involving 400 people broke out in the Little India area of Singapore late Sunday night after a fatal traffic accident. Police brought the riot under control by the wee hours of Monday but reported that 10 officers were injured and that five police cars, one ambulance and several private vehicles were damaged.