As London youths rampaged through districts of the UK capital for three nights, British people copied the looters’ tactics on Wednesday by starting to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said "a fight-back is under way" to restore law and order to Britain's streets despite rioting, looting and arson by gangs of hooded youths spreading from London to other cities, Reuters reported.
Cameron vowed on Thursday to hunt down the street gangsters and opportunistic looters he blamed for “Britain's worst violence in decades.”
While he acknowledged that police tactics had failed at the start of the rioting, young Londoners, citizens and more British people seemed to be in positive spirit to fight back.
Here are a few latest pictures that depict UK is getting back to life after the riots.
A woman paints a message on a boarded up shop in Ealing, west London August 10, 2011.REUTERS/Toby MelvilleHundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront in southeast London August 10, 2011.REUTERS/Chris HelgrenHundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront in south London August 10, 2011.REUTERS/Chris HelgrenA man lays a candle at the scene where three men were killed by a car in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, central England August 10, 2011. Police launched a murder inquiry in Birmingham after three Muslim men died after being run over by a car in the mayhem there. A friend of the men told BBC radio they had been part of a group of British Asians protecting their area from looters after attending Ramadan prayers at a mosque.REUTERS/Darren StaplesPeople pray at the scene where three men were killed by a car during the recent rioting in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, central England August 11, 2011.REUTERS/Darren StaplesA man hangs a tribute at the scene where three men were killed by a car during the recent rioting in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, central England August 11, 2011.REUTERS/Darren StaplesPart of a group of about 300 volunteers help clear the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, northeast London August 9, 2011.REUTERS/Chris Helgren
