MADRID — Officials say police have restored order in the southern city of Roquetas de Mar after clashes broke out following the stabbing death of an immigrant, allegedly by a Spanish resident in a road-rage incident. Interior Ministry spokesman Andres Garcia Lorca says 100 officers are on duty Saturday after garbage containers were set on fire and property was damaged during nighttime altercations. Regional government spokesman Gabriel Amat says scuffles broke out in a poor part of the town mainly inhabited by immigrants who work in the region's sprawling greenhouses after the body of a 42-year-old immigrant from Guinea-Bissau was found. Residents had celebrated on Wednesday when news broke that a lottery agency in the city had sold over 1,000 winning tickets in Spain's rich Christmas lottery.
11 arrested while at gay wedding
DAKAR — Residents in the Senegalese town of Kaolack say police have arrested 11 people accused of homosexual acts. Boukhari Ndiaye said the arrested were among 20 people attending a celebration of a gay marriage at a school in the town about 125 miles southeast of the capital, Dakar, on Friday. He said the 11 remain at the police station. Homosexual acts are criminalized in at least 34 African countries, including Senegal, where they are punishable by up to five years prison and fines of up to $2,500. A well-known Senegalese journalist was sentenced in July to six months in prison for acts of homosexuality.
Extremist killed by own roadside bomb
NAIROBI — A Kenyan police official says an Islamic extremist died in Kenya's north when a roadside bomb he was planting exploded. Suleiman Rashid, a senior officer in the northern town of Mandera, said Saturday that officers on patrol came across five suspected members of Somalia's Al Shabab extremist group planting a roadside bomb. Rashid said the officers shot at the suspected rebels who panicked and detonated the bomb, killing one insurgent while the others escaped.Mandera has experienced several attacks in this month that officials attribute to a group that has splintered from Al Shabab, who are allied to Al Qaeda, and have instead pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Al Shabab has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops to Somalia to fight extremists.