Vancouver: One fifty people required hospital treatment overnight as rioters swept through downtown Vancouver following Canucks 0-4 loss to Boston Bruins in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
Vancouver Coastal Health spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo said Thursday three stabbing victims have been admitted and an unidentified man is in critical condition with head injuries after a fall.
She said most of the rioting victims were treated at St Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver, 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.
TV footage showed a man being beaten after he tried to stop looters from smashing windows at the Bay department store. Looters were seen grabbing T-shirts and anything else they could get their hands on. (Agencies)