MADRID, Spain (AP) - African immigrants clashed with Spanish police in a second night of violence triggered by the killing of a Senegalese man in an apparent drug dispute, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
Four demonstrators were arrested and a Civil Guard officer was injured, it said.
Africans living in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Roquetas del Mar, a seaside town in Almeria province on the Mediterranean, threw rocks at an ambulance on a routine call Sunday night, then attacked police who came to restore order, a ministry official in the provincial capital Almeria said.
The violence first broke out in the early hours of Sunday after the stabbing death of a 28-year-old man from Senegal. Enraged Africans set fire to houses and cars. Four protesters were arrested and two police were injured after this first outbreak of rioting, the official said.
The stabbing appeared to stem from a dispute over drugs, and police are looking for a small-time dealer identified as a suspect in the killing, the ministry official said. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing, he added.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because department rules bar his name from being published.
The newspaper El Pais reported Monday that the Senegalese man was trying to break up a fight over drugs and was stabbed. But the ministry official said he could not confirm this, saying the circumstances of the killing remained under investigation. |