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Violence escalated across London on Tuesday with riot police fighting thousands of youths torching properties and looting shops as Prime Minister David Cameron headed back from his Tuscany holiday to face the mounting crisis.
In some of the worst rioting in the capital in years, buildings were in flames in Croydon, Peckham and Lewisham in the south of the city, while gangs of looters roamed the streets of Hackney in the east, Clapham in the south, Camden in the north and Ealing in the west.
Hundreds of riot police poured into Hackney to try to contain the violence in a district just a few kilometres from where the 2012 Olympics will take place in a year's time. As darkness fell, police wielding batons pushed the youths back, while local residents hoping to return to their homes were kept behind police cordons.
In Croydon, an entire block of buildings - including a 100-year-old family furniture business - was ablaze, sending raging flames leaping into the night sky. Just outside of Croydon town centre, hordes of looters roamed the streets unchallenged while the smell of burning cars and buildings hung over the air, an AFP correspondent said.
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