MOSCOW - The death toll in a violent soccer riot that followed Russia's loss to Japan in World Cup play rose to two Monday with the death overnight of another victim of the bloody riot, police said.

Russian media had reported that the second death was a police officer who died Monday from knife wounds, but police said they were still trying to establish the victim's identity and how he died.

In another development, hooligans attacked a dormitory housing Vietnamese workers late Sunday hurling empty beer bottles at the building, police said. No further details were immediately available.

Several main streets in central Moscow erupted into a battle zone Sunday evening during a World Cup match in which Russia lost 0-1 to Japan that was broadcast live on a large screen across a square from the Kremlin walls.

Russian soccer fans rampaged, setting cars ablaze, smashing store windows, fighting police and each other and attacking a group of young Japanese musicians.

FIFA on Monday expressed regret for the incident.
An Associated Press photographer saw a mutilated corpse lying on the street during the chaos, and police later confirmed a man had been knifed to death.

At least seven cars could be seen burning and more than a dozen were completely overturned. Dozens of others, including expensive foreign cars, had their windows smashed.

Startled shop workers raced to take racks of clothes and shoes in the back. Some people burst into tears when they returned to their destroyed vehicles.

Officials said 68 people were injured, including 18 policemen. Police said 8,000 fans were involved in the riot and some 113 people were detained.

Thousands of fans ran through the streets chanting "Forward, Russia!" and other soccer slogans. The fans, many who had been drinking beer and other alcoholic drinks, jumped up and down on cars and fought among themselves, throwing empty beer bottles at each other. Some of them were wrapped in the Russian tricolor. Many had their faces painted in the colors of the Russian flag.

Thick black smoke rose from several cars near the national parliament building, the State Duma, and from the square in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

The windows of shops up to 1 1/2 kilometers (1 mile) away - including a Tiffany jewelry store, a Sbarro pizzeria, an Ecco shoe store and the historic Yeliseyevsky grocery store - were smashed. At least two banks had their front windows smashed. Bus stops and telephone booths were destroyed.

Cars had their windows smashed as well all along the road leading to the headquarters of the Russian security services, the former KGB, as well as in front of the offices of the Russian Presidential Administration which also had windows broken.

Five music students from Japan who were attending the 12th Tchaikovsky musical competition nearby were attacked by soccer hooligans, a duty officer at the Japanese embassy in Moscow said. One of the students was injured but his wounds were not considered serious.

Last week, the Japanese embassy had warned its citizens not to go out if Japan won.

The violence erupted after Japan scored its goal but before the match had ended. Few police officers were nearby at the time.

Firefighters arrived first, and the rioters attacked their trucks. Photographers and cameramen were also beaten. An ambulance was attacked as well.

Once police arrived, some of the fans tried to help them detain the instigators of the riots by overpowering the hooligans and leading them to the police.

Aggressive Russian soccer fans, who often sport shaved heads, have in the past rampaged in Moscow, but never to such an extent.

Moscow city officials ordered a stop to showing the matches on big outdoor screens.

Some politicians criticized the authorities for organizing the public showings of the matches while failing to prepare for possible violence.