Belfast Riots Torch Homes and Trigger 62 Fire Calls After Sudanese Asylum Seeker's Knife Attack
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Updated · Daily Signal · Jun 19
Belfast Riots Torch Homes and Trigger 62 Fire Calls After Sudanese Asylum Seeker's Knife Attack
3 articles · Updated · Daily Signal · Jun 19
Summary
62 incidents were logged by Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service in one night as rioters hurled bricks and bottles at police, torched vehicles and set homes ablaze in Belfast neighborhoods with large migrant populations.
The unrest followed a June 8 knife attack in which Sudanese asylum seeker Hadi Alodid allegedly slashed a local man across the face and neck, blinding him in one eye; he was charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses.
27 people were left homeless and families fled burning buildings while police deployed water cannons to contain the disorder.
The violence has revived tensions in Northern Ireland nearly three decades after the Troubles and echoes earlier UK and Irish unrest tied to crimes allegedly involving migrants.