By Peter Murphy and Joe Jackson, AFP
Youths gather infront of a burning barricade as anti-immigration protests take place in Northern Ireland.
Anti-immigration protesters torched buildings and vehicles in Belfast and blocked roads, a day after a stabbing allegedly by a Sudanese refugee, captured in a graphic video that shocked the country.
Hundreds of protesters, many masked, gathered at several locations across Belfast, AFP journalists saw. A bus and several cars were set alight, while a building fringing the city centre caught fire and its residents had to be evacuated.
"By 7:30 pm (18:30 GMT) they started (a) fire in the bins...we heard police cars and sirens," said one resident, Eemran, an engineer of Indian origin who has been living in Belfast for slightly over a year.
