In the streets off east Belfast's Newtownards Road, houses are blackened and boarded up.
Cars sit burned to their shells. Ash is in the air. You can still smell the burning.
The riots last week in Northern Ireland's capital took place almost entirely in loyalist Protestant areas like this, triggered by the stabbing of a Belfast man, Stephen Ogilvie. Hadi Alodid, who is Sudanese, has been charged with attempted murder.
A team from Phoenix Energy, the gas supplier, began to work on repairs. Residents didn’t want to be named. One of them, a Protestant woman from the area, in which loyalist paramilitary groups remain active, described having her back door kicked in.
She was terrified and upset. She felt sad for her neighbours. A Ukrainian woman, a Polish family, and a Romanian family had all been burned out of their homes.
