Five people were killed in a riot near Lhasa on March 15, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, adding that 16 mostly illiterate Tibetans were formally arrested on Saturday for the violence. It was not clear whether the five were included in the death toll of 19 that China has given for deadly rioting in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on March 14, Reuters reported. Rioters destroyed 23 shops, burned a house and two fire engines, and smashed a police car in Deqing town, Dagze county, roughly 25 kilometres east of Lhasa, Xinhua said in an English language report.