WORLD : Swedish Refugee Motel Bombed
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STOCKHOLM — A firebomb was thrown at a motel occupied by refugees early today, the eighth such attack in a week of violence against Sweden’s liberal immigration policy.
The homemade device caused no damage or injury but spread alarm among the 114 refugees at the motel outside the southern town of Gothenburg, the motel’s night watchman said.
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