In East Belfast , a group of masked men, clad in black, stormed a house where an ethnic-minority family - including children - were living, yelling anti-immigration slogans.

It comes after an attack far-right figures claimed was an attempted beheading by a Sudanese suspect.

Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers appearing to conclude it wasn’t safe to intervene

Protesters attacked police and burned vehicles in a number of locations across Northern Ireland.