Police fire water cannon in Belfast as stabbing sparks second night of unrest

Police deployed water cannons in Belfast on Wednesday night during a second consecutive night of unrest. The violence erupted following a brutal stabbing on a city street, which has triggered anti-immigrant sentiment. Demonstrators, some wearing masks, hurled bricks, rocks, and bottles at riot police, and set small fires. They also used sledgehammers to smash pavements and tore bricks from walls to use as projectiles, with some protesters taking cover behind sections of a dismantled picket fence. These clashes occurred hours after a 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in court charged with attempted murder in connection with the stabbing that left a man seriously injured.