Residents evacuate as Belfast protesters set homes and vehicles on fire as disorder erupts after knife attack
Police said 62 fire service calls and multiple arrests followed the unrest, as officials urged calm and warned the violence was not terror-related.
- 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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Vehicles and homes were burned down after a refugee was charged with a stabbing attack.
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Burning cars and buildings: Xenophobic protests have escalated after a brutal knife attack in Belfast.
The family of the 40-year-old man who was attacked with a knife in Belfast on Monday night has now responded to the anti-immigration riots that broke out in the Northern Irish capital last night, the BBC reports.
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