Hockey riots stun Vancouver, leave nightmare cleanup
China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-18 07:46
Riot police walk in the street as a couple kisses on Tuesday in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after its hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Rich Lam / Agence France-Presse |
VANCOUVER - A shamed Vancouver faced a huge cleanup and mounting security questions on Thursday after hockey fans set parts of downtown ablaze and clashed with police, leaving hundreds injured or arrested in Canada's worst riots in years.
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