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A riot police officer stands in front of a burning city bus after protests in Malmo on Saturday.
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After the approval of rallies by a small Islamophobic party, riots broke out again on Sunday night in Sweden.
In Malmo, a bus caught fire after strangers threw a burning object at the vehicle, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported.
The passengers had to be evacuated.
Other vehicles and several garbage cans also burned in the city.
Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police.
The protests were sparked by a gathering of politician and lawyer Rasmus Paludan's Stram Kurs.
The anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant group is currently touring through various Swedish cities, holding meetings where a Koran is said to be burned at each one.
There have already been clashes between the police and counter-demonstrators in several Swedish cities.
Riots also in other Swedish cities
Stram Kurs's rally on Saturday was moved from the originally planned Landskrona to a parking lot in the neighboring city of Malmo to avoid riots.
Nevertheless, protests broke out in various parts of the city in southern Sweden, with rioters also throwing stones at the police.
The officers were not injured, according to a police spokeswoman.
In the city of Örebro in the south of the country, several police cars were set on fire on Good Friday.
About a dozen police officers were injured.
There were also riots with stone throwing in the capital Stockholm.
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