Riots and looting started in London on Saturday and have spread all over the country. They were here too, and shops were looted and burned and people made homeless. Here are a few pictures from my town:
A family furniture store that has withstood both world wars up in flames:
And in the morning:
The ashes of a bus:
This was just at the end of our road:
This is what it looked like in the morning:
And from where the water is being poured. Those are flats on top of the shops:
The remnants of an Asian clothes store:
The ironic sticker left on a completely empty gold shop:
How they got into another gold shop:
I saw a toddler wearing a motorbike helmet, walking beside his mother carrying a packet of pampers nappies which they had looted from Sommerfield.
I heard an Asian man with his arms full of toilet rolls say, “Yaar, if only I had a car.”
I saw a woman steal someone’s wheelie bin, which she filled up with alcohol from the Sommerfield storage area and Tesco and wheel it home.
I heard of a woman wearing Superdrug uniform looting Superdrug.
I heard the cries of a lady whose house was on fire.
I saw an injured pregnant lady ask for refuge at our mosque and we fed her the food prepared for iftaar and gave her drink until the ambulance came.
I saw armoured vehicles containing riot police from Cambridgeshire, Devon and Cornwall and Wales the day after. But by then it was all over.
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Please remember all those around England who have been made victims of such selfish, stupid and sickening actions. People have lost business’s, their homes, their loved ones and in some cases their lives. May this violence end soon, and may peace return to the streets of this country.
Please also remember the suffering of those around the world who due to war, famine, natural disasters and or disease are also undergoing difficult times.
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Title: Nursery rhyme.
Photos that are not my own were taken from here and here.
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