[HOAX] G20 Anarchists Set London Financial District Ablaze

LONDON (AFP) — Demonstrators pelted police with missiles as they tried to save a dying man during violent London demonstrations, police said as they imposed a lockdown around the Group of 20 summit on Thursday.

Police manned barriers and checkpoints around the ExCeL centre in east London where world leaders met to thrash out a response to the economic crisis as huge cleanup started after Wednesday's riot in the financial district.

One man died after collapsing with a suspected heart attack and 86 people were arrested during the troubles as about 4,000 demonstrators laid siege to the Bank of England.

Scotland Yard said police medics were targeted with bottles as they tried to save the man, who had collapsed and stopped breathing.

"The officers gave him an initial check and cleared his airway before moving him back behind the cordon line to a clear area," a spokesman said.

"The officers took the decision to move him as during this time a number of missiles -- believed to be bottles -- were being thrown at them."

He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Thousands of people took to the streets for the demonstrations that descended into violent battles with riot police, as protesters smashed their way inside a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) office, breaking through windows, hurling out office equipment and trying to set it ablaze.

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Anti-capitalist, anarchists, and environmental activists marched in London where representatives of 20 of the world's largest economies were set to meet Thursday for the g-20's annual meeting.

The protests occurred in several areas of London, but the most volatile was in the city's financial district, where protesters shattered the windows of the Royal Bank of Scotland as well as spray painted anarchist symbols and the word "thieves".(source: CNN)

According to the London Times, some protesters took it a step further:"Police made at least 19 arrests during a day of protests in the City of London, including 11 demonstrators who tried to drive an armoured personnel carrier marked "Riot Police" into the heart of the protests."

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