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For the third night in a row, rioters burned cars in suburbs around Stockholm. The unrest started in the suburb of Husby, where a week ago police fatally shot a man who was menacing a woman and the police with a machete. On May 19, over 100 cars were torched; on May 20, more than 100 people rioted; and on May 21, rioters threw stones at police and firefighters, and torched 30 cars in the suburbs of Rinkeby, Skarpnäck, Norsborg, Kista, Fittja, Bredäng, Flemingsberg, Edsberg, and Tensta. The rioters also vandalized a police station and a shopping center. Eight people have been arrested.