Youths riot across Denmark for sixth night in a row: police

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COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Six people were arrested in Copenhagen overnight after small groups of youths torched cars and dumpsters across the city for the sixth night in a row, police said on Saturday.

Up to eight others were arrested in towns across the country, media reported.

"In Copenhagen there were 28 cars set on fire, 35 dumpsters and 14 garbage fires in the streets," Copenhagen police chief inspector Lau Thytesen told AFP.

Of the six people arrested in the capital, five were to be charged with arson while the sixth had been released, he said.

Other violence was reported in Denmark's second biggest city Aarhus, as well as Odense and North Zealand.

The cause of the troubles was not known. The youths, who have acted in small groups with no...