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BELFAST: Police arrested 16 people during a second night of disorder in Northern Ireland sparked by a brutal Belfast stabbing, a senior minister said on Thursday, condemning rioters for “racist thuggery”.
The clashes with police on Wednesday came hours after a Sudanese man appeared in court charged with attempted murder over Monday night’s shocking knife attack.
Video of the incident — which showed a man straddling another lying in the street, slashing him with a knife — went viral across social media platforms, triggering condemnation and anger that has spilled onto the streets of Northern Ireland.
The condition of the stabbing victim, Stephen Ogilvie, was “improving” on Thursday, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Gavin Robinson said after meeting his family.
