Running battles between rioters and police have broken out in Manchester city centre while violent disturbances has returned to the streets of Birmingham.
Up to 2,000 youths were involved in looting and arson attacks in Manchester, not long after similar scenes in nearby Salford.
The Miss Selfridge store in Manchester city centre was set alight as groups looted shops, smashed windows and hurled bins at police.
There was trouble for a second night in the centre of Birmingham as looters broke into a jewellery store and a House of Fraser shop.
Fires blazed in Market Street, Manchester, while Piccadilly Gardens was also blocked as riot police tried to control the mobs.
About 100 youths looted Foot Asylum in the city’s main Arndale Centre after two raiders smashed open the glass entrance with a large stone slab.
Cheers went up among the crowd as the front window of the Bang & Olufsen store, off King Street, was smashed in.
All shops in the city centre had closed early but many pubs and restaurants remained open.
Mohammed Shafique, from the Ramadan Foundation charity, watched the disturbances in Manchester city centre that broke out shortly after 6pm. He told BBC News 24: ‘There are running battles going on with the police – 2,000 young men and teenagers.
‘I saw one young man seriously injured on the floor – there was no ambulance here, police are walking past. I’m really surprised the police don’t seem to be taking them on.’
There were also outbreaks of disorder in Wolverhampton, with shops broken into, as well as clashes in nearby West Bromwich.
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