The Moroccan government has condemned anti-immigrant violence in Spain, after police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators on the third day of protests against workers from North Africa.

A statement from the Moroccan foreign ministry said what it called "racist acts" were a violation of the friendship between the two countries.

More than thirty people have been injured in the trouble so far as the authorities attempt to halt the violence in the south-eastern Spanish region of Almeria. In the latest clashes, police trying to clear roadblocks in the town of El Ejido came under attack from the protesters and a factory was set alight. The violence erupted on Sunday after the funeral of a Spanish woman allegedly killed by a Moroccan immigrant.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service