Residents evacuate as Belfast protesters set homes and vehicles on fire as disorder erupts after knife attack
Police said 100 men joined east Belfast unrest as officers declared a critical incident and urged calm after the stabbing video spread online.
- 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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On Tuesday 9 June, incidents broke out in Belfast during anti-immigrant demonstrations, which took place in the aftermath of a knife attack attributed to a Sudanese refugee. Northern Ireland has been living at the rate of outbreaks of violence against foreigners for the past three years. - Tension in Belfast: how anti-immigrant violence is rooted in Northern Ireland (International).
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Photos show the aftermath of anti-immigration protests in Northern Ireland
Riots broke out in Belfast after a stabbing attack by a man from Sudan that left a victim seriously injured. The attack triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo…
After a knife attack in Belfast, the protests escalate – hundreds of people on the streets, burning vehicles, smoke over the city.
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