As mobs roamed Belfast's streets targeting anyone who looked foreign, Areej Fareh and Twasul Mohammed organised to help keep immigrant families safe

Elon Musk amplifies calls for street protests as violence spirals overnight

The agitated protestors put a Belfast bus on fire and pelted stones at police, reported news agency Associated Press. | World News

Houses, cars, a bus and a supermarket were set alight as parts of the city descended into chaos, with claims non-white residents were deliberately targeted.

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Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot were frightened they would be next as fires took hold on neighbouring houses and rioters set cars alight

Families were forced to cower or flee as masked and hooded rioters ransacked homes and torched cars belonging to 'foreigners' on Tuesday night.

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

Women and children are in hiding in fear of waves of racist attacks fuelled by hatred spread on social media, as Sam Kiley reports from Belfast

As mobs roamed Belfast's streets targeting anyone who looked foreign, Areej Fareh and Twasul Mohammed organised to help keep immigrant families safe