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Liverpool : United Kingdom | Aug 09, 2011 at 5:34 AM PDT
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British PM Cuts Holiday Short to host COBRA Meeting as UK Riots Spread

For the serious riots in London, there have been the first fatality. The government wants to make in the coming night with 16,000 police officers to restore order. Prime Minister Cameron called a meeting of the parliament held a special session.During the days of rioting that began in London for the first time a man has been killed. A 26-year-old man who had suffered during the riots on Monday in the Croydon area in his car had a gunshot wound, died at the hospital, said the British police on Tuesday. Croydon is a borough in south London, where it was set during the riots several buildings were on fire.The violence has also been recorded in London and several other cities in England full. In the British capital during the night many fires were set. Also in Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol masked rioters took to the streets and set fire to homes and vehicles.Prime Minister David Cameron broke off his holiday and called for this Tuesday for a special session of Parliament, he also summoned the National Security Council. He called the riots in London as "pure criminality". "We will do everything to restore order," he said at the door of Number 10 Downing Street The number of police forces would be increased from 6000 to 16,000 in the coming night. Cameron was threatened at the most severe punishment of juvenile criminals. "You will feel the force of law." If they are old enough to commit these crimes, they were old enough to atone for them.

The British Home Secretary Theresa May condemned the riots as "crimes". The violence has reached such proportions that Britain had not seen in years, she told the television station Sky News.The Metropolitan Police urged parents in the British capital to keep their children at night to (tomorrow's) Wednesday at home. That gave the reigning London police chief announced on Tuesday. Plans to enlist, the armed forces to resolve the riots admit, not so far, the report said.

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