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Migrants Disturb Peace in Shelter in Western Sweden

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A group of migrants disturbed the peace in a shelter near the western Swedish city of Gothenburg on Monday, local media reported.

STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) — According to the local GT newspaper, the incident took place in the early hours of the morning.

"They have been noisy all night. The shelter’s employees thought that everything would come round, but in the morning they decided to call the police," the media outlet quoted a local police spokesman as saying.

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He added that the riot, which involved some 20 people and was apparently triggered by a dispute between residents of the center, caused serious damage to the shelter before police arrived and detained one of the rioters.

Last month, Swedish media reported that over the last four months local police registered over 5,000 migrant-related incidents. According to the local authorities some 158,000 asylum-seekers arrived in the country in 2015.

Europe is currently struggling to cope with a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety and refuge in stable and wealthy EU states, including Sweden.

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