Police detain 55 as 91 injured in Dresden clashes

More than 90 people were injured and 55 detained as youths clashed with police in the German city of Dresden overnight, police said today.

Officers were pelted with flares, bottles and stones by a crowd of several hundred mostly drunken youths after they were called to the scene of a scuffle in the eastern city last night, police spokesman Thomas Geithner said.

He said there appeared to be no political motive for the violence, which lasted into the early hours of the morning. The clashes left 91 people injured, 41 of them police officers.

One vehicle was set ablaze, while the rioters tried to overturn a catering firm’s truck.