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Cyprus police arrest 21 people as tensions between locals and refugees rise

A migrant stands behind a fence inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia, outside of Nicosia, Cyprus [File: Petros Karadjias/AP Photo]

Cyprus police have arrested 21 people after violent clashes involving refugees and residents of a community in the west of the island which has a large population of asylum seekers.

On Tuesday, police said about 250 Syrians and Greek Cypriots in the village of Chloraka fell into violence on Monday night as smaller numbers of protesters from both groups began setting fire to rubbish bins and torching a building’s fence.

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