Dutch unrest continues

Dutch police detained more than 150 people in a third night of unrest in cities across the Netherlands, where roaming groups of rioters set fires, threw rocks and looted stores in violence triggered by a night curfew aimed at curbing the coronavirus.

The nation's first curfew since World War Two followed a warning by the National Institute for Health over a new wave of infections due to the British variant of the virus, and was imposed despite weeks of declines in new infections.

Ten police were injured in Rotterdam, where 60 rioters were detained overnight, Dutch news agency ANP said.

Two photographers were hurt after being targeted by rock-throwing gangs, one in Amsterdam and another in the nearby town of Haarlem, NH Nieuws said.