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Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence after knife attack | BBC News
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4:19Now PlayingHouses, cars, and a bus were set on fire in Belfast last night in a night of violence that followed a knife attack on Monday.
The suspect, a 30-year-old Sudanese man who claimed asylum in the UK, is in court later.
In one area, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill says "groups of masked men" were "burning families out of their homes" - Chief Constable Jon Boutcher says the violence was a "huge act of self-harm by mindless idiots".
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described the chaos in Belfast on Tuesday night as "shocking and completely unacceptable".
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