Scores of young people rioted in Rosengård, the Malmö suburb in which tensions have been running high since the recent closure of an Islamic cultural center. Some 100 youths ran amok for the second straight night, setting cars and garbage bins ablaze and throwing stones at police, police said. "We've had a very difficult evening. There have been fires burning since this afternoon in garbage bins and cars, there's extensive damage to public property, and there's been stonethrowing and bomb threats against police," police spokeswoman Ewa-Gun Westford said. One person was arrested during the riots, she said. Westford said the troubles were linked to the recent closure of an Islamic cultural center in Malmö's heavily-immigrant populated neighbourhood Rosengård.
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