Baltimore cleans up after street riots

Baltimore residents were cleaning up the wreckage from rioting and fires that erupted after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody.

Acrid smoke hung over streets where fire crews raced to contain damage from violence that broke out just blocks from the funeral of Freddie Gray and spread through much of west Baltimore.

The unrest saw looters ransack stores, pharmacies and a shopping mall and clash with police in riot gear. It was the most violent in the US since Ferguson, Missouri, was torn by gunshots and arson late last year.