The Associated Press Mon, Sep 8, 2008 (1:45 a.m.)
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 shantytown near 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.
The stabbing appeared to stem from a dispute over drugs, and police have identified a small-time dealer 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.