THERE was a second straight night of racist violence on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday following the knife attack by Hadi Alodid on Stephen Ogilvie that blinded the victim and left him hospitalised.Police blasted water cannon at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them.Masked demonstrators tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed pavements with sledgehammers to attack riot police. In one place, the thugs used sections of a dismantled picket fence to take cover on the street.

THERE was a second straight night of racist violence on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday following the knife attack by Hadi Alodid on Stephen Ogilvie that blinded the victim and left him hospitalised.

Police blasted water cannon at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them.

Masked demonstrators tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed pavements with sledgehammers to attack riot police. In one place, the thugs used sections of a dismantled picket fence to take cover on the street.

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