2013 Little India riot

2013 Little India riot
2013 Little India riot
Date	8 December 2013
Location	Junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road
Caused by	Traffic accident
Methods	Rioting
Parties
Singapore Police Force ; Special Operations Command	300~ rioters
Lead figures
	Teo Chee Hean ; S. Iswaran ; Ng Joo Hee ; Hoong Wee Teck
Casualties
Injuries	62
Arrested	40
Charged	33

The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of migrant labourers from South Asia to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location. About 300 migrant labourers were involved in the riot which lasted for around two hours.^[1] This was the second riot in post-independence Singapore, and the first in 44 years since the 1969 race riots. The riots led to stricter laws and higher penalties on alcohol consumption and sales, culminating in the Liquor Control Act in 2015.^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b Feng, Zengkun; Au-yong, Rachel (18 December 2013). "Riot: 28 face charges, 53 to be deported". The Straits Times, Singapore. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
^ Nghiem, Ashleigh (9 December 2013). "Singapore bus death triggers riot". BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
^ "Rare riot shuts down Singapore's Little India district". The Australian. 9 December 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
^ Brown, Sophie (9 December 2013). "Dozens arrested in Singapore after foreign worker's death sparks riot". CNN. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

[st-300-1] Feng, Zengkun; Au-yong, Rachel (18 December 2013). "Riot: 28 face charges, 53 to be deported". The Straits Times, Singapore. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

[bbcnews-2] Nghiem, Ashleigh (9 December 2013). "Singapore bus death triggers riot". BBC News. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

[australian-newspaper-3] "Rare riot shuts down Singapore's Little India district". The Australian. 9 December 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

[cnn-4] Brown, Sophie (9 December 2013). "Dozens arrested in Singapore after foreign worker's death sparks riot". CNN. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

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