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Police in Belfast use water cannon as anti-immigrant unrest continues
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- Clashes come as family of knife attack victim calls for calm and condemns violence targeting immigrants.
- Police in the United Kingdom city of Belfast have used water cannon to disperse dozens of far-right protesters during a second night of unrest triggered by a knife attack involving a Sudanese refugee.
- The clashes on Wednesday came as the family of the stabbing victim appealed for calm and condemned the wave of anti-immigrant violence in the city in Northern Ireland.
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Clashes come as family of knife attack victim calls for calm and condemns violence targeting immigrants.
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Police in the United Kingdom city of Belfast have used water cannon to disperse dozens of far-right protesters during a second night of unrest triggered by a knife attack involving a Sudanese refugee.
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