Singapore: Four more Indians were charged today for alleged rioting in Singapore's worst outbreak of violence in over 40 years as police continued the crackdown on foreign workers, taking the number of Indians charged to 31.
Four Indians were charged in court in connection with riots in Little India, a precinct of Indian-origin businesses, eateries and pubs where most of the South Asian workers take their Sunday break, triggered by the death of an Indian in a road accident.
Sellamuthu Elangovan, 45, Ammasi Venkatesan, 27, Selarasu Dhanapal, 25, were accused of throwing pieces of hardened concrete at the police officers in response to the melee along Race Course Road in Little India, The Straits Times reported.
The fourth man, Arumugam Karthik, was said to have been a member of an unlawful assembly and accused of attacking - with a dustbin, wooden stick, hardened concrete, bottles and a metal drain cover - a private bus that fatally knocked down 33-year-old Sakthivel Kumaravelu at the junction of Tekka Lane and Race Course Road.
Kumaravelu died in the accident on Sunday night. The bus was to ferry South Asian workers from Little India to their dormitories.
