As racially driven anti-immigrant protests continue to shake Belfast and surrounding regions, the Indian population in Northern Ireland, Britain, is living in fear. As protests persisted for a second night after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder after a vicious knife attack, rioters torched an under-construction Indian grocery store on fire in north Belfast, and a hit list targeting the migrants' homes was made public.
In Newtownabbey, close to Belfast's city centre, a group of protestors were seen hurling objects at police cars in videos posted on social media and by the BBC. In response, the cops fired water cannons at the demonstrators. More than two dozen people were left homeless after firefighters saved a number of people from burning homes.An abandoned building on Shankill Road, where a businessman of Indian descent intended to erect a grocery shop in a few months, was also set on fire. The victim, who is originally from India but has spent the previous 18 years in the UK—the last eight of those years spent in Northern Ireland—told the BBC that he was "heartbroken" by the incident.

"We can have a conversation if they think it will negatively impact the neighbourhood in any manner. The victim, who is originally from India but has spent the previous 18 years in the UK—the last eight of those years spent in Northern Ireland—told the BBC that he was "heartbroken" by the incident."People occasionally believe that we are here to steal their jobs. The victim, who is originally from India but has spent the previous 18 years in the UK—the last eight of those years spent in Northern Ireland—told the BBC that he was "heartbroken" by the incident.

A Threat That Spreads
The victim, who is originally from India but has spent the previous 18 years in the UK—the last eight of those years spent in Northern Ireland—told the BBC that he was "heartbroken" by the incident.

Riots in Belfast
The victim, who is originally from India but has spent the previous 18 years in the UK—the last eight of those years spent in Northern Ireland—told the BBC that he was "heartbroken" by the incident.
A violent stabbing in Belfast on Monday, in which a 30-year-old Sudanese man attempted to "behead" a man on a Belfast street before the victim was saved by bystanders, sparked the altercation. Following his video appearance in Belfast Magistrates' Court, where a detective claimed he had blinded Stephen Ogilvie in the left eye during the knife attack, the accused, Hadi Alodid, was apprehended and placed under arrest. In addition, he was accused of having a knife and making threats to murder a radiographer while receiving medical attention for a hand injury sustained during the attack.

Anti-immigration groups seized on the attack when it was captured on camera and swiftly circulated on social media. Following the murder of a student named Henry Nowak, who was held by police while he lay dying from stab wounds after his attacker, a Sikh man named Vickrum Singh Digwa, falsely claimed that the crime was racist, tensions in Britain are at an all-time high.
Additionally, it comes after numerous immigration protests in which populist parties claimed that Britain's asylum program had permitted dangerous men to enter the nation.