Northern Ireland police say they got calls from distressed Belfast residents as a list of home addresses circulated online amid anti-immigration riots.

Despite calls for calm, masked anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set a bus, vehicles and some homes on fire in what one politician called "a race-based pogrom."

Ministers have blamed far-right online agitators for stoking racial tension following a stabbing.

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A second night of violence has erupted in Belfast after a 'hit list' of 'migrant homes' circulated on social media and protestors returned to the street.

Riot police and water cannons were deployed in Belfast as the city braced for another night of unrest amid anti-immigrant sentiment after a brutal knife attack.

PSNI warns that specific homes are being targeted online to incite further anti-immigration protests following riots in Belfast

Politicians and law enforcement officials in Northern Ireland appealed for calm on Wednesday after a night of anti-immigrant rioting forced people from their homes.

On Wednesday evening masked rioters fought with police near a hotel housing migrants in the Northern Irish capital

A second night of unrest — triggered by a Sudanese man’s alleged knife attack on a man in the middle of a Belfast street — leaves 12 officers injured and 16 rioters in custody.

Belfast stabbing sparks riots and anti-immigrant unrest in Northern Ireland, exposing deep tensions over immigration, misinformation and the Irish border.

A dozen police officers were injured and 16 people were arrested during a second consecutive night of anti-immigrant unrest in Northern Ireland.

Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networks

Northern Ireland police say they got calls from distressed Belfast residents as a list of home addresses circulated online amid anti-immigration riots.

People in city’s minority ethnic communities speak of alarm as violence casts light on racism in Northern Ireland

Police were repeatedly warned that a 'hit list' of migrant addresses was being circulated ahead of the riots in Belfast this week.

In the wake of anti-immigration riots in West Belfast, community members have shown their support for immigrants.