Police use water cannons against protestors as riots build in Belfast
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A second night of disorder is unfolding in Northern Ireland's Belfast, with rioters hurling objects at police.
Hundreds of masked protesters set cars and buildings alight in a violent, anti-immigration display yesterday following a Sudanese refugee allegedly stabbing a man.
Local officials are condemning the violence and anti-immigrant rhetoric that’s circling.
UK Correspondent Enda Brady told Heather du Plessis-Allan that police had to use a water cannon to try and disperse protestors, who were trying to get at a hotel used to house migrants and asylum seekers.
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