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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Newton Emerson: Northern Ireland’s politicians can do little but condemn brutal Belfast attack and racist rioting
Racism has been associated with unionist areas because that is where immigrants have been able to find housing. Republican communities take pride in behaving better
OVER 60 INCIDENCES OF VIOLENCE ERUPT IN BELFAST AFTER SHOCKING KNIFE ATTACK
Belfast has become a battlefield over immigration and race relations, ignited by a brutal knife attack allegedly committed by a Sudanese migrant. Hadi Alodid stands charged with attempted murder after his violent encounter with local resident Stephen Ogilvie, who now faces life-altering injuries. The event triggered not just outrage but rampant protests and riots that swept through the city. Onlookers report that the initial response to the atta…
Northern Ireland is on fire. Incidents broke out on Tuesday 9 June following a stabbing attack attributed to a Sudanese refugee. Hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters in Belfast burned buses, cars and buildings.
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