For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Follow us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />A night of rioting leaves a north London neighborhood devastated. The unrest in Tottenham was sparked by a fatal shooting of a local man by police.<br /><br />London picked itself up on Sunday from some of the worst violence seen in the British capital for years.<br /><br />Politicians and police blamed criminal thugs but residents attributed it to local tensions and anger over rising financial hardship.<br /><br />Rioters throwing petrol bombs rampaged overnight through an economically deprived district, setting police patrol cars, buildings and a double-decker bus on fire.<br /><br />The air around the Tottenham High Road, site of the riots, was still thick with smoke on Sunday and people covered their mouths as they passed through side-streets. <br /><br />Firefighters continued to hose down smoldering buildings and broken glass carpeted the road strewn with debris.<br /><br />Wreckages of torched vehicles stood in the middle of the road. <br /><br />Police said 26 officers were injured as rioters bombarded them with missiles and bottles.<br /><br />The trouble broke out on Saturday night following a peaceful demonstration over the shooting of Mark Duggan, 29, who was killed after an exchange of gunfire with police on Thursday.<br /><br />Duggan's death is now being investigated by the independent police watchdog.<br /><br />The riots also come amid deepening gloom in Britain, with the economy struggling to grow amid deep public spending cuts and tax rises.<br /><br />Some put the trouble down to a toxic mix of factors.<br /><br /> [John, Local Resident]:<br />"I believe it is a combination of many things. It is a combination of anger bubbling over from the events that took place on Thursday when this young man with a family was basically gunned down by police, in combination with the fact that there were a number of people from outside of the community who were intent on causing trouble and disruption...
