Clashes broke out in a sleepy southeastern Spanish town near Murcia for a second night. The violence erupted just days after a pensioner said he was attacked by a group of youths from North Africa.
An outbreak of violence between migrants and residents in a southeastern Spanish town was fueled by social media posts from far-right groups, an official from Spain's government said Sunday.
Five people suffered minor injuries during Saturday night's disturbance and one person was arrested.
Mariola Guevara, a central government delegate in the Murcia region, said officials responded after detecting posts that had incited a planned "hunt for migrants," which had begun earlier than planned.
Groups armed with batons roamed the streets of the sleepy town of Torre Pacheco, near Murcia, late Saturday for a second night, days after an attack on an elderly man by unknown assailants.
Despite a major police presence, regional newspaper La Opinion de Murcia reported that groups were looking for people of foreign origin.
Videos posted on social media showed men dressed in clothes bearing far-right symbols and migrants carrying Moroccan flags hurling objects at each other in the center of the 40,000 population town.
The footage also showed rubbish containers and barricades in flames.
Police officers managed to prevent a confrontation between the two groups, Mayor Pedro Ángel Roca said.
Roca said most of the people taking part in the riots had come from other areas.
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