1.   The rioting quickly spread to neighbouring areas.

2.   In September communal rioting had spread through Kerala, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh after renewed controversy over the disputed site of the Babri mosque at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

3.   Protesters also set fire to three vehicles in Kandy on Sunday, but the rioting did not spread.

4.   But the rioting spread to other neighborhoods.

5.   The government did not act quickly and the rioting spread.

6.   The rioting spread to nearby Kaikoli, a university campus, where youngsters burned some kiosks believed to be owned by non-Timorese traders.

7.   The rioting soon spread.

8.   The rioting spread to some schools and university campuses and was accompanied by calls for democracy by both Shiites and activists of the mainstream Sunni sect.

9.   The ensuing rioting spread quickly.