Football fans riot
From correspondents in Lusaka, Zambia
04sep05
ZAMBIAN football fans went on the rampage and staged riots after their team was beaten 1-0 by Senegal in a World Cup qualifying match, police said overnight.
The riots continued when irate fans beat up Senegalese nationals living in Zambia's copperbelt town of Kitwe and burnt down several shops and vehicles, an unnamed police official said.
"We have managed to control the situation now. We have made some arrests," he said.
Kitwe, a mining town situated about 400 km north of the capital, Lusaka, has a sizeable population of Senegalese who are mainly involved in small-scale mining.
The riots started in Chililabombwe, a small mining town where the match was played, but the looting spread further to other parts of the province.
Zambia's loss to Senegal meant that the country's hope of making a first appearance at the World Cup next year has been dashed though the team has qualified for the African Cup of Nations to be held in Egypt in 2006.