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Aborigines riot in Sydney over boy`s death
Sydney, Feb 16: Aborigines rioted in Sydney`s black ghetto of Redfern last night over the death of a young aboriginal cyclist, hurling Molotov cocktails and bricks at police in a nine-hour battle.
Sydney, Feb 16: Aborigines rioted in Sydney's black ghetto of Redfern last night over the death of a young aboriginal cyclist,
hurling Molotov cocktails and bricks at police in a nine-hour battle.
Armed with garbage bins full of paving bricks and beer bottles,
Molotov cocktails and fireworks, about 100 aborigines set fire to
the inner city railway station of Redfern, forcing rail officials to
order trains to speed through the station.
Aborigines, some bare chested with t-shirts wrapped around their faces, pelted lines of riot police with bricks and bottles, and at one stage pushed a burning garbage bin on wheels towards police and set off fireworks among them.
''They were throwing Molotov cocktails both at police and at Redfern Railway Station during the course of the riot,'' Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Waites said today. Waites said rioters had eight garbage bins loaded with paving bricks to be used as missiles, along with large tubs of beer bottles.
It took 200 police nine hours to bring the rioters under control, with some 50 police injured, many with broken bones. Eight police officers remained in hospital today.
The riot was triggered by the death of an aboriginal boy, Thomas Hickey, who was impaled on a metal fence after falling from his bicycle on Saturday. He died in hospital on Sunday morning.
Bureau Report
Aborigines, some bare chested with t-shirts wrapped around their faces, pelted lines of riot police with bricks and bottles, and at one stage pushed a burning garbage bin on wheels towards police and set off fireworks among them.
''They were throwing Molotov cocktails both at police and at Redfern Railway Station during the course of the riot,'' Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Waites said today. Waites said rioters had eight garbage bins loaded with paving bricks to be used as missiles, along with large tubs of beer bottles.
It took 200 police nine hours to bring the rioters under control, with some 50 police injured, many with broken bones. Eight police officers remained in hospital today.
The riot was triggered by the death of an aboriginal boy, Thomas Hickey, who was impaled on a metal fence after falling from his bicycle on Saturday. He died in hospital on Sunday morning.
Bureau Report