Scores of young people gathered in a main street in the inner-city district of Hackney, smashing up buildings and breaking into a truck that became stranded in the middle of the road, pulling out its contents, the pictures showed.
It began when police tried to carry out a stop and search operation, the BBC said, but a police spokesman could not immediately confirm the report.
Riots broke out in the north London district of Tottenham on Saturday night, following a protest against the death of a local man in a police shooting last week, and the violence spread to other parts of the city on Sunday.
The worst-hit districts -- Tottenham, Brixton in south London, and now Hackney -- are multi-ethnic areas which have high rates of unemployment.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011