Homes, cars, etc set on fire in Belfast night of anti-immigrant violence after stabbing. MP: a "race-based pogrom".

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr47x99k5n6t



Summary

Houses, cars, and a bus were set on fire in Belfast last night in a night of violence that followed a knife attack on Monday. One pastor in north Belfast says black people's homes were targeted, while an MP tells the BBC there was a "race-based pogrom"

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says. Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill says "groups of masked men" were "burning families out of their homes".

In County Antrim, an African family living in the area for 20 years moved after their windows were smashed, while a Ukrainian family in Belfast fled their home when their front door was set alight.

The fire service says it was called to 62 incidents last night, most of them in the Belfast area. The violence followed a knife attack in Belfast on Monday night - the suspect, a 30-year-old Sudanese man who claimed asylum in the UK, is in court later.