Belfast race riots see families targeted and houses torched after stabbing

Belfast race riots see families targeted and houses torched after stabbing Submitted by Imran Mulla on Wed, 06/10/2026 - 11:01 Hundreds of masked men storm through Belfast after Elon Musk and other far-right figures urged protests following alleged stabbing by Sudanese asylum seeker A building is set alight in the Sandy Row area of Belfast city centre, Northern Ireland, in the evening of 9 June 2026 (AFP) Off Race riots broke out in the Northern Irish capital Belfast on Tuesday night as hundreds of masked men torched homes and vehicles belonging mostly to ethnic minority residents. The rioters set up checkpoints to search cars for foreign nationals, after the arrest on Tuesday of a Sudanese asylum seeker who has been charged with attempted murder. Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, was filmed attacking a man on a residential street with a knife in what many commentators have described as an attempted beheading.