1.   A riot began when drug traffickers tried to free their jailed confederates.

2.   Ernest Brown lives about a dozen blocks from where the riots began.

3.   A few hours later, a riot began in the town during which police officers and black residents exchanged gunfire.

4.   Agence France-Presse reported that the riot began after a Freeport employee struck a local man with his car.

5.   But Protestant residents said the riots had begun as a peaceful protest against intimidation by Catholics.

6.   But some aspects of the case remain a mystery, including two interviews with McElroy, who was with Gabbert when the riot began.

7.   Other recent unrest includes two sets of riots beginning last Sunday in which tribesmen attacked Freeport facilities.

8.   Someone fired a shot, which hit a black man, and the riot began.

9.   Suddenly, the prison riot began, and Lindh was shot in the right thigh.

10.   The riots began Sunday, a local government employee said.