ALMOST 150 people required hospital treatment and close to 100 were arrested after rioters swept through downtown Vancouver following a Canucks loss to the Boston Bruins in the decisive Game seven of the Stanley Cup final.
Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Anna Marie D'Angelo said today that three stabbing victims had been admitted and an unidentified man was in a critical condition with head injuries after a fall from a viaduct.
She said most of the rioting victims were treated at St Paul's Hospital, while about 40, including the stabbing cases and the head injury patient, were being treated at Vancouver General Hospital.
Rioting and looting left cars burned, stores in shambles and windows shattered over a roughly 10-block radius of the city's main shopping district.
Police Chief Jim Chu said nine officers were injured, including one who required 14 stitches after being hit with a thrown brick.
Chief Chu said some officers suffered bite marks. He said 15 cars were burned, including two police cars.
He called those who incited the riot "criminals and anarchists" and said officers identified some in the crowd as the same people who smashed windows and caused trouble through the same streets the day after the 2010 Winter Olympics opened.
"These were people who came equipped with masks, goggles and gasoline," he said. "They had a plan."
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