Suriname police have arrested 35 people and evacuated migrants after violent clashes in recent days between locals and mainly Brazilian miners, police commissioner Krishna Mathoera-Hussainali said Monday. Armed forces put down a riot and looting rampage in the town of Albina, 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Paramaribo on the French Guiana border, where tensions between Brazilian wildcat gold prospectors and native Surinamese boiled over on Christmas Eve, leading to the killing of a Surinamese man. Mathoera-Hussainali said 55 Brazilians filed reports of physical violence on December 24, while some 130 migrants -- mainly Brazilians but also including Chinese -- have been transferred to safe accommodation in the capital. 'They received clothes, food, victim aid and trauma counseling,' the commissioner said, adding that police launched an investigation into the violence. Suriname President Ronald Venetiaan was expected to visit the site of the rampage later this week and meet with the victims. 'It is a great pity,' he told local radio ABC on Monday, adding that the Brazilian government has offered assistance. 'It is our Surinamese community who attacked the Brazilians, but it is a Brazilian who first killed the Surinamese.' A group of up to 500 locals went on a rampage last Thursday, in reaction to the fatal stabbing of a Surinamese, apparently by a Brazilian. Some 20 Brazilian women reported they had been raped, and 13 other Brazilians were also wounded in the clashes. Dozens fled into the forest and were rescued by armed forces, Defense Minister Ivan Fernald said. During the unrest a Chinese supermarket and a shopping mall were robbed and set ablaze. On Sunday Brazil's ambassador visited Albina, while Brazil sent an air force plane to Suriname offering seats to citizens wishing to return home. Another plane was expected Monday. 