Vancouver riots after ice-hockey defeat – in pictures

Vancouver Canucks fans push a car over after their team lost the finals of the Stanley Cup championship to the Boston Bruins Photograph: Mike Carlson/Reuters

A Canucks fan yells and poses for a friend's camera in front of a burning car in Vancouver Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/Rex Features

Firefighters put out the flames of a burning vehicle as a couple of Vancouver Canucks fans take in the scale of the riot Photograph: Mike Carlson/Reuters

People walk in the street as smoke billows out of a building in Vancouver Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

Canucks fans help a man injured in a fight after the Vancouver team lost the Stanley Cup final Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/Rex Features

A police car burns during the riot in downtown Vancouver Photograph: Jonathan Hayward/AP

Vancouver Canucks fans loot merchandise through the smashed windows of a Sears store Photograph: Mike Carlson/Reuters

Police on horseback move down a street during the riot that erupted after the Vancouver Canucks lost against the Boston Bruins Photograph: Ryan Remiorz/AP

Police on horseback ride through a street in Vancouver past a fire set during the riot that erupted after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final Photograph: Rich Lam/Getty Images

Police officers stand amid the debris after Canucks fans rioted in Vancouver Photograph: Darryl Dyck/AP

A security guard stands outside a bank damaged in the riots Photograph: Andy Clark/Reuters

Police stand guard as police cars burn in the background in the riots that erupted after the Stanley Cup final Photograph: Andy Clark/Reuters