Police: Manchester riots unprecedented in scale
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Hundreds of youths rampaged through the Manchester city center, hurling bottles and stones at police and vandalizing stores as violence continued to escalate in the UK. A women's clothing store on the city's main shopping street was set ablaze, along with a disused library in nearby Salford. Looters targeted stores selling designer clothes and expensive consumer electronics.
Manchester's assistant chief constable Garry Shewan said looting and arson had taken place there on an unprecedented scale, but appeared to have little motive. About 50 people were arrested there (AP).
