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Riots have spread Tuesday to Manchester. Several shops were set on fire

Tuesday night there were riots in Manchester, northwest Britain, police announced.

In Manchester, which has not been affected so far by violence, about 20 youths threw bricks at police cars but were dispersed by police. Several shops were set ablaze.

“Some shops were attacked by groups of young people that came together and seem determined to cause disorder”, said deputy police chief in Manchester, Terry Sweeney.

In West Bromwich, a city situated near Birmingham, about 200 people behind barricades threw various projectiles towards the police, burned vehicles and vandalized shops, according to police and BBC. At Wolverhampton, on the outskirts of Birmingham, several shops were looted, police said.

Birmingham was the scene of violence on the night of Monday to Tuesday, where shops were looted in the city center and a police station was torched. Over 130 people were arrested after the incident.

Since the beginning of the riots on Saturday in Britain, protesters often attacked police, so that 111 police officers were injured in London.

No incident was recorded in the capital on Tuesday evening, but the tension was noticeable, shops closing in the afternoon, especially in the Camden district, where police is patrolling in force to prevent further incidents.

The first riots broke out Saturday in London, after a demonstration to against the death Thursday of a man killed by police with a bullet in the chest. Ballistic expertise concluded Tuesday that there is no evidence that the man opened fire on police.