Singapore to charge 24 Indian workers for rioting

SINGAPORE: Singapore prosecutors will charge 24 Indian workers for taking part in the city-state’s first riot in more than 40 years, police said Tuesday as the government called for calm and warned against stoking racial hatred.

The men face jail terms of up to 10 years plus caning for the hour-long fracas on Sunday night, triggered when an Indian construction worker was struck and killed by a private bus in a district known as Little India. They were among an estimated 400 people involved in the rampage that left 39 police and civil defense staff injured and 25 vehicles—including 16 police cars—damaged or burnt.