LONDON, Oct 23: An uneasy calm hung on Sunday over a Birmingham neighbourhood where a night of rioting triggered by rumours that a teenager had been sexually assaulted left one man fatally stabbed.
Some 20 people were injured and several arrested in Saturday’s unrest in the low-income Lozells district of Britain’s second city, which followed a public meeting to discuss the alleged sex attack, police said.
“It’s all quiet at the moment,” a West Midlands Police spokesman told AFP by telephone on Sunday, adding that there was “a high visibility police presence” in the area to deter any fresh incidents. The injured included three who were stabbed, and two who were shot.—AFP
