Alcohol, police lapses at fault in Singapore's Little India riot-inquiry


  • World
  • Monday, 30 Jun 2014

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A fatal bus accident and alcohol, not foreign workers' living conditions, were to blame for Singapore's first major riot in 40 years, according to the report of an inquiry into the incident released on Monday.

Some 400 migrant workers went on the rampage in the Little India district one Sunday evening last December, setting fire to cars and clashing with police after a construction worker was knocked down and killed by a bus.

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