Protests grow in Belfast
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UK PM Keir Starmer described the attack as sickening and said that violence like this has no place on the country’s streets.
CROWDS of protesters have taken to the streets of Belfast in the wake of the horror “attempted beheading” that rocked the nation. Thick smoke is billowing into the air above the city as protesters
Protests and riots broke out in Belfast, United Kingdom, the day after a Sudanese immigrant stabbed and attempted to behead a local. A bystander filmed the crime on Monday night, in which a Sudanese immigrant straddled and tried to behead a man in his 40s with a kitchen knife.
The suspect, who the police said is in his 30s and Sudanese, is alleged to have attacked another man in an assault in Belfast that was recorded and spread quickly online.
Police and political leaders in Northern Ireland have called for calm, after a man, 30, was charged with attempted murder.
A man arrested on suspicion of a widely condemned knife attack in Belfast has been charged with attempted murder, police have said. The 30-year-old accused, who is Sudanese, is also charged with
The victim of Monday's horror knife attack on Kinnaird Avenue in Belfast has been named locally as Stephen Ogilvie. A 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder as large anti-immigration protests erupt across the city.