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The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of migrant labourers from South Asia to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location.
A riot that lasted about two hours erupted in Little India on Sunday, 8 December 2013, following a fatal traffic accident that had occurred along Race Course Road. 1 Some 300 rioters took part in the unrest, which was the worst case of public violence in Singapore in over four decades. 2 About 240 officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF ...
Dec 3, 2023 · The Little India riot left 62 people injured and caused more than $530,000 in damage. Emergency vehicles, including police cars and ambulances, were flipped over and burned.
Jan 19, 2016 · Little India Riot: One Year Later - The night that changed Singapore. Law and order reigns again in Little India - but amid tighter control. Insight does some soul-searching and looks at...
Dec 3, 2023 · SINGAPORE - A rock the size of a fist slammed into his head as shattered glass rained down on him during the riot in Little India on Dec 8, 2013. Certis officer Nathan Chandra Sekaran, then 34,...
Jan 19, 2016 · Twenty-seven men from South Asia were arrested in connection with Sunday night's riot in Little India, which apparently started after a bus ran over and killed an Indian worker as he was...
Dec 8, 2013 · SINGAPORE — Chaos broke out in Little India last night (Dec 8), after a crowd of hundreds surrounded a coach at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road that knocked down and killed an...
Jul 1, 2014 · An interactive graphic of the Little India riot showing what happened. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Aug 14, 2014 · For his role in the worst outbreak of violence in the Republic in more than four decades, Samiyappan — the sixth man to be convicted of rioting in the Little India riot last December — was...
Dec 8, 2013 · SINGAPORE — After a six-month inquest into the Little India riot, the Committee of Inquiry (COI) has determined that the incident was triggered by a fatal traffic accident and escalated into a...
