Three people were shot and wounded in violent clashes on Sunday in Norrköping, south-west of Stockholm, between the police and demonstrators protesting against a far-right group that prides itself on burning the Koran, Swedish police said.
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“The police fired several warning shots. Three people appear to have been hit by ricochets and are currently being treated in hospital
,” police said in a statement.
The three injured, whose condition is not known, are also
"under arrest, suspected of a crime"
, it is specified.
This is the second such clash in four days in Norrkoping.
Four days of clashes
In southern Sweden, the city of Malmö was also plagued by different episodes of violence last night.
Garbage cans, a bus and a car were set on fire.
"It calmed down around 3 a.m., there were a few fires but the violence died down
," police spokeswoman Kim Hild told public radio SR, indicating that no member of the security forces the order had been harmed.
On Thursday and Friday, around 12 police officers were injured in clashes.
