Violence continues in Northern Ireland for a second night after a stabbing in Belfast triggers unrest, including anti-immigrant tensions. Multiple outlets report that protesters clash with police in areas around Belfast and nearby locations, with demonstrators throwing bricks, bottles and other projectiles at riot officers, and in some cases setting small fires. Accounts also describe masked participants tearing bricks from walls, smashing pavements, and using materials such as sections of picket fencing to take cover.
Police respond by deploying water cannons and increasing their presence to contain the disorder. The Evening Standard reports that police officers are injured and that several arrests are made, while other sources focus on the scale and intensity of the confrontations.
The violence follows the stabbing on a Belfast street, which prompted tensions in the community. France 24 and the Belfast Telegraph say a 30-year-old man from Sudan is charged in connection with the stabbing, which left a man seriously injured. Additional reports mention allegations of minority targeting during the unrest.
