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Three die in riot-hit British Midlands, London calm overnight

Riots broke out for the fourth night in British cites on Tuesday but London was quite as communities mobilised to protect homes and shops and 16,000 police swamped the streets. Three men were killed by a car in Birmingham and and found dead with a gunshot wound in Croydon, near London

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Birmingham police have arrested a man and launched a murder inquiry after three men were hit by a car at 1am. Two were pronounced dead at the scene and the third died later in hospital.

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The three had come out of a mosque and were protected their area from riots, according to the BBC.

Earlier the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, found nothing to indicate that Mark Duggan, the man whose shooting by police sparked the first riots, had fired at police, although he did have a loaded gun in his possession.

Duggan’s family, who have appealed for an end to rioting, declared that the were “completely gutted” and demanded “answers” from the police.

There was looting and violence in the industrial north and the Midlands, where police arrested 109 people overnight.

Scotland Yard said Wednesday that 768 people had been arrested in the capital since the unrest started.

On Tuesday night:

  • In Manchester gangs smashed their way into shoe shops and looters broke into a major shopping centre, while a clothes store was set on fire;
  • In Birmingham, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton youths clashed with police;
  • In Nottingham a police station was firebombed;
  • In Bristol a jewellery store was targeted;
  • In Liverpool cars were torched and police were pelted with missiles;
  • In Leicester 14 people were arrested after city centre buildings were attacked;
  • London was calm with 16,000 police  on the streets - hundreds of Sikhs camped out overnight in Southall and local people were on the streets of Eltham to deter looters.

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