41. Police shot and killed five people caught looting shops abandoned by fleeing Madurese in the town of Sampit and the regional capital of Palangkaraya, he said. 42. Police spokesman Oliver Soko confirmed several cars were damaged and shops were looted. 43. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd at a shopping center, where mobs were trying to loot shops. 44. Residents of Bunia reported by ham radio that the Zairian soldiers were looting shops and attacking members of the Nande ethnic group whom they accuse of supporting the rebels. 45. Protesters later burned several government vehicles, torched a store and looted other shops in violent clashes that followed. 46. Several shops were looted and machine gun fire was directed against police, the Lagos Guardian said. 47. Rioters, many of them high school students, threw stones and bottles at police and looted shops for a second day Saturday in an Indonesian town. 48. Rioters attacked and ransacked the airport and later burned and looted shops in the center of Papeete, the capital. 49. Shops were looted late Tuesday and early Wednesday in the towns of Norton, Chegutu and Gweru. |