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Police arrested 42 people in connection with looting and vandalism incidents in South London.

08 August,2011 11:08 am

Police make arrests after London disturbances and looting and vandalism hits shops and council premises. Groups of youths attacked shops and damaged a police car in north London as police sent in reinforcements to prevent more rioting on the scale that laid waste to another area of the British capital 24 hours earlier.Scattered incidents broke out on Sunday evening in Enfield, a few miles north of the deprived London neighbourhood of Tottenham, which was hit by some of the worst riots seen in London for years on Saturday night after a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by armed police earlier in the week turned violent.Three shops were damaged, and two of them looted, in Enfield and the rear window of a police car was smashed, police said, adding that several people had been arrested.Fire engines were still on site of smouldering buildings, with bricks littering the roads and burglar alarms still ringing.Earlier in the day in Tottenham, an area with large numbers of ethnic minorities and high unemployment, workers began cleaning up shops trashed by looters and police sealed off a main street to investigate crime scenes after rioters throwing petrol bombs set fire to police patrol cars, buildings and a double-decker bus.Police said 26 officers had been injured as rioters bombarded them with missiles and bottles, looted buildings including banks, shops and council offices, and torched three patrol cars near Tottenham police station.At least 42 people have already been arrested, with police anticipating further arrests.