Youth run down and killed as mobs clash – police appeal for calm

thestar.co.uk

Saturday 19 March 2011

POLICE and community leaders issued an appeal for calm today after a teenager was knocked down and killed as mobs of youths clashed on a Sheffield street, writes crime reporter Claire Lewis.

A murder inquiry has been launched after Abdulla Awil Mohamed, aged 18, from Burngreave, was hit by a car which mounted the pavement on Coleridge Road, Darnall, and also careered into a lamppost.

Locals told The Star gangs of youths had massed on the street, shouting and yelling, in the moments before Abdulla was killed.

In the hours leading up to the fatal collision on Thursday night, a series of other disturbances also broke out in Darnall – on Staniforth Road, Ribston Road and Nidd Road.

Police are also looking into violent clashes in recent days in Firth Park, and at Parkwood Academy in Shirecliffe. Residents living near the school on Longley Avenue West told The Star on Thursday the neighbourhood was ‘being turned into a war zone’, and believed the skirmishes at the school were racially-motivated. Read more…

~ par Alain Bertho sur 20 mars 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, banlieue, riots