By Emma Pinedo

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain said on Thursday it would step up investigations into suspected crimes by members of far-right and racist groups after four nights of clashes with African migrants in some of the nation’s worst such unrest of recent times.

Authorities have detained 11 people and filed more than 60 complaints over hate crimes and disorder since violence erupted last Friday following an attack on a local man in his 60s in the town of Torre Pacheco in southeastern Murcia region.

Police have detained three Moroccan men over the attack in a town where one third of the inhabitants are of migrant origin.

The Interior Ministry said Spain’s terrorism and organised crime intelligence specialists have been asked to include hate crimes within their remit and to monitor online

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