What the records say
- When
- 22 Oct 2005 – 23 Oct 2005
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 52.51° N, 1.93° W
- Description
- 2005 riots in Birmingham, England
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2005 Birmingham riots
2005 riots in Birmingham, England
The Birmingham riots of 2005 occurred on two consecutive nights on Saturday 22 October and Sunday 23 October 2005 in the Lozells and Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. The riots were derived from ethnic tensions between the Caribbean and British Pakistani communities, with the spark for the riot being an alleged gang rape of a teenage black girl by a group of British Pakistani men.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Lozells riots in Birmingham begin, leaving according to the most recent reports at least two dead. * Rumours that a 14-year-old Afro-Caribbean girl had…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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