Clashes between Italy police, immigrants injure 30

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Source: Reuters

ROME (Reuters) - At least 30 people, including 20 policemen, were injured in the southern Italian city of Bari on Monday in clashes between immigrants seeking asylum and police, witnesses said.

Immigrants angry at delays in getting asylum set fire to trash cans and tyres early in the morning, and threw stones at police who intervened to break up the protest, witnesses said.

Some immigrants blocked a railway track, and others blocked traffic on a local highway.

Immigration, especially from Africa and Eastern Europe, is a sensitive issue in Italy and protests by immigrants kept in holding centres across the country occur sporadically.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE77008B20110801

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I feel for the people seeking a better life and can't imagine how bad it must be for them to travel through all the dangers they have, but to start riots in the country you hope will adopt you seems about as stupid an idea as it gets. If the right-wingers need any more fuel for the fire, there it is.

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