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A shop burns as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London on August 6, 2011. Two police cars were on Saturday set ablaze in north London following a protest over the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in an armed stand-off with officers. The patrol cars were torched as dozens gathered outside the police station on the High Road in Tottenham. (AFP)
London police launched a "major investigation" into the city's worst rioting in years. Death of a local man in a police shooting raged on early Monday sparked violence.
Thousands looted a giant electrical retail store in the southern area of Brixton in Monday's early hours and gangs of youths pelted police with missiles, AFP correspondents reported.
Scotland Yard said "copycat" looting had spread to a number of boroughs in the capital's north, east and south, while a mob of around 50 youths damaged property in Oxford Circus, at the heart of the city's tourist area.
Several arrests were made after youths vandalised a police car and smashed windows in Enfield, a north London suburb three miles from Tottenham, the area at the heart of the previous night's mayhem.
Additional police resources were deployed in the volatile neighbourhoods with three officers requiring hospital treatment after being hit by a car.
Commander Christine Jones said: "This is a challenging situation with small pockets of violence, looting and disorder breaking out on a number of boroughs."
In the first night of violence, homes were torched, two police cars and a double-decker bus torched and shops looted late Saturday in Tottenham, conjuring memories of 1985 riots in the same area and dampening the mood in a city hosting the Olympic Games in a year.
Police said 26 of its officers were hurt, while three members of the public also needed treatment following the surprise violence. By Sunday, all the injured police officers had been discharged from hospital.
A total 55 arrests were made after Saturday's riots. Prime Minister David Cameron's office described the violence as "utterly unacceptable."
Metropolitan police announced that officers working on the Operation Withern probe would interview witnesses and review hours of CCTV footage to locate the Tottenham rioters.
The violence followed a protest over the death of a 29-year-old man last Thursday during an apparent exchange of gunfire with police.
The killing of Mark Duggan, a father-of-four, was "absolutely regrettable," police commander Adrian Hanstock said in a statement, adding that an investigation into the shooting was underway.
Duggan was killed when specialist firearms officers stopped a minicab in which he was travelling to carry out a pre-planned arrest.
The march against Duggan's death began at Broadwater Farm, a 1960s public housing estate in Tottenham that is notorious across Britain.
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