Stockholm riots spread to more suburbs

May 22, 2013 05:00 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:23 pm IST - STOCKHOLM

Firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night, late May 21, 2013. Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by an incident in which police shot and killed a man wielding a knife. (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg)  SWEDEN OUT

Firemen extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night, late May 21, 2013. Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by an incident in which police shot and killed a man wielding a knife. (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg) SWEDEN OUT

Groups of youth smashed windows of business establishments, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital.

Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says seven people were briefly detained on Wednesday and one person was arrested on suspicion of arson of a cultural center housed in a 19th century building.

Lindgren says 30 vehicles were set afire in six suburbs, where mainly immigrants live. Gangs of up to 60 youths also set fire to a school and a nursery and hurled rocks at police and fire fighters.

The unrest began on Sunday in response to the May 13 shooting, in which police killed a 69-year-old, knife-wielding man in a north-western suburb.

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