Police move to quell more violence 12dec05 POLICE moved quickly to prevent violence at potential new flashpoints in Sydney tonight following some of the worst race-based clashes ever seen in Australia. Police guarding against any repeat of yesterday's race riot at Cronulla tonight blocked off streets around the Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney's south-west, after about 500 mostly Muslim men gathered, apparently after rumours of an imminent attack on the building. Rocks and flares were thrown at police as the crowd dispersed, police said, and although no one was injured, tensions tonight remained high among Australians of Middle Eastern background, who were targeted in yesterday's race riot at Cronulla beach. Earlier today, cricket bats, rocks and lengths of steel were confiscated by police monitoring about 100 local residents who had gathered near Maroubra Beach, not far from where a rampaging mob smashed car windows last night in an apparent retaliation for the Cronulla beatings. The crowd had largely dispersed by nightfall, but Superintendent Phil Rogerson said police were also worried about violence flaring tonight at Coogee and Bondi, in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
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