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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.About 300 migrant labourers were involved in the riot which ...
Dec 3, 2023 · It started with a fatal traffic accident and erupted into Singapore's first riot since the 1960s. Here's what happened on the night of Dec 8, 2013.
Dec 6, 2014 · Every Sunday, from the living room of his third-floor Housing Board flat in Little India's Buffalo Road, Singaporean Jumani Hori can see foreign workers playing cricket on a grass patch along ...
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) as well as 56 from the Singapore Civil Defence ...
Jan 19, 2016 · One of the vehicles which were torched during the Little India riot on Dec 8 last year. A mob of about 400 people had turned violent and attacked emergency vehicles responding to a fatal accident.
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 ...
Aug 14, 2014 · SINGAPORE — Already intoxicated from drinking that night, Samiyappan Sellathurai had watched the crowd become more agitated on Dec 8 last year after a bus ran over and killed a construction ...
8 Dec 2013, Singapore saw the first major riot in over 40 years. How did a fatal accident spark such an angry outburst? And will this impact the way we now deal with the large number of foreign ...
Dec 9, 2013 · Police arrest 27 people in Singapore after a worker's death sparks riots. An Indian national died after he was hit by a bus in the Little India district
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 ...
