Riots have broken out in the Swedish suburb that Donald Trump referred to in his speech about immigration problems.

Police were forced to fire warning shots after a group of rioters began setting fire to cars, throwing stones at police and looting shops in the Rinkeby district of Stockholm on Monday night.

A police officer was injured during the clashes, Swedish public service broadcaster SVT reported.

Donald Trump made his confusing remarks about immigration in Sweden at his Florida rally on Saturday.

Trump was initially thought to be talking about terrorism when he warned of 'what's happening last night in Sweden'.

Riots have broken out in the Swedish suburb that Donald Trump referred to in his speech about immigration problems

Donald Trump made his confusing remarks about immigration in Sweden at his Florida rally

But he later claimed he was talking about an edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight about immigrant crime in the Scandinavian country.

Trump was mocked widely for his Florida speech, in which he said: 'You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden.

'Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible.'

He later clarified on Twitter that he was denying 'fake news' claims that 'large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully.'

Police said in a statement that at least seven or eight cars were burned in the district, which has one of the largest immigrant populations in Stockholm, during Monday's disorder.

A police officer was injured during the clashes, according to Swedish public service broadcaster SVT

Police said in a statement that at least seven or eight cars were burned in the district, which has one of the largest immigrant populations in Stockholm

Police later said they suspected that cars had been set on fire to lure them to the scene.

A photographer from the Dagens Nyheter newspaper also claimed that he spent a night in hospital after he was assaulted by a group of 15 people in Rinkeby as he attempted to report the unrest.

'I was hit with a lot of punches and kicks both to my body and my head. I have spent the night in hospital,' he said.

A shopkeeper was also reportedly beaten while trying to protect his store, while another person was also beaten, with both taken to hospital for treatment.

Police later said they suspected that cars had been set on fire to lure them to the scene

Police said between 30 and 50 young men were involved in the violence, which saw two civilians and a police officer taken to hospital

The disorder reportedly broke out after police arrested a wanted person, believed to be a drug dealer, at the subway station in Rinkeby at about 8pm that night.

'It happened in connection with an intervention near the metro station, the officers were to detain a person, our colleagues got stones thrown at them' Eva Nilsson at the police regional command center in Stockholm told Aftonbladet.

While it was initially reported that police had fired warning shots, national public broadcaster SVT later said that the officers, in fact, fired directly at the rioters.

The suburb, north of central Stockholm, has a population made up of 75 per cent immigrants

'That is correct. According to initial reports it was warning shots, however the officers did indeed fire directly at the stone throwers but missed their targets', police chief Tony Lagerkrantz told SVT.

Stockholm police spokesperson Lars Byström, said officers were unclear exactly how many people had been involved in the riot, but estimated that the number was between 30 and 50 young men.

'Some may have disappeared, others have been added, it is difficult to get a handle on how many exactly,' he told SVT. 'We have a fairly large number of police officers trained to handle this type of a situation.'

Officers managed to get the violence under control by around midnight, and have now launched an investigation in an attempt to track down those responsible for the disorder.

The disorder reportedly broke out after police arrested a wanted person, believed to be a drug dealer, at the subway station in Rinkeby

Officers managed to get the violence under control by around midnight, and have now launched an investigation

The suburb, north of central Stockholm, has a population made up of 75 per cent immigrants.

'We will make sure to reestablish law and order,' Lars Byström, press officer at the Stockholm police told Aftonbladet.

Swedish Minister of Interior Anders Ygeman added: 'The police do not back out, the police are there. It is good that the police intervene, they arrested a wanted person.

'They have expanded their presence in our suburbs and it has led to more interventions, it can also risk getting a bit messy, but in the end it leads to greater security for the residents', he told the national daily SVD.