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Copenhagen: Youths set fire to cars, buses and schools in Denmark on Saturday, the seventh night of rioting and vandalism in the capital Copenhagen and other Danish cities, police said on Sunday.
Four youths were arrested in the capital for suspected arson and at least 24 fires were reported across the country. Several youths were detained in Denmark's second city Aarhus in Jutland, and in Odense on Funen island.
"It is some of the same groups that have roamed the city for the last couple of nights," police operations leader Preben Jorgensen said while inspecting fire damage at Tingbjerg School on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Police could give no reason, but said unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break might have contributed.
Social workers said an alleged plot to kill a Danish cartoonist for his drawing two years ago of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) might have fuelled the riots. Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoon on Wednesday in protest against the plot.
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