Just yesterday, a 33-year old Indian man got
hit by the proverbial bus in Singapore’s Little India . That was
the catalyst. What transpired for the next several hours was a full
blown riot… the first of its kind since 1969.
Several hundred rioters stormed the streets.
They started off smashing the up the bus that was still on the corner
of Hampshire Road and Race Course Road. Then they started throwing
objects at the ambulance staff who were unsuccessful in extracting
the man in time to save his life.
By the end of the evening, an angry mob had lit
five police vehicles on fire, plus the ambulance, leaving the streets
in a towering inferno.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today
condoled the death of an Indian national who was killed in a road
accident in the city-state’s Indian district.
Sakthivel Kumaravelu, 33, was fatally knocked
down last night by a bus in Little India, a precinct of Indian-origin
businesses, eateries and pubs where most of the South Asian workers
take their Sunday break, triggering the country’s worst outbreak of
violence in over 40 years.
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