India, June 10 -- Large-scale anti-immigration protests erupted across Belfast on Tuesday after a 30-year-old Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack in Northern Ireland.

Masked protesters took to the streets in several parts of the city, setting houses, vehicles, barricades and a bus on fire, causing widespread disruption and escalating tensions.

Unrest also spread to the neighbouring town of Newtownabbey, where demonstrators were seen setting two cars ablaze.

"Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice," O'Neill wrote on X.

She labelled the violence as "outright thuggery" and warned against attempts to exploit the knife attack to target innocent ...