Residents evacuate as Belfast protesters set homes and vehicles on fire as disorder erupts after knife attack
Police said the unrest followed a stabbing attack that left a man in his 40s seriously injured and prompted anti-immigration protests.
- Violence and arson erupted across Belfast on Tuesday night, sparking widespread property destruction after anti-immigration activists mobilized online in response to a brutal stabbing incident.
- The unrest began after a 30-year-old Sudanese national was charged with attempted murder, following a graphic, viral video of a knife attack in North Belfast that left a man in his 40s hospitalized with severe eye, face, and back wounds.
- Emergency teams had to evacuate residents from their homes on Lendrick Street, where rioters set several vehicles on fire, causing high-intensity flames to spread dangerously close to nearby residential properties.
- Masked rioters hijacked and burned a public Glider bus in East Belfast, pushing ablaze commercial trash bins directly into the vehicle on Newtownards Road and forcing the transport operator, Translink, to suspend all bus and train services.
- Northern Ireland's political leaders issued a unified plea for calm, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Stormont's five main political parties condemning both the "sickening" knife attack and the lawless riots, warning citizens not to be manipulated by faceless agitators online.
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Anti-immigrant protests flare up across Belfast after knife attack
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After a stabbing attack, the protests in Belfast escalate with burning buses.
The call came after a Sudanese asylum seeker stabbed a 40-year-old man in Northern Ireland, in a fact that the police described as a critical incident
Unrest breaks out in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after knife attack
Multiple fires have been reported across Belfast, Northern Ireland, as unrest broke out after an apparent attempted beheading left a man in serious condition. A 30-year-old Sudanese man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident. The disorder broke out on Tuesday evening, a day after the stabbing in north Belfast. Sky News aerial footage showed fires burning at several locations across the city, including at homes, wi…
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