On the ground in the Belfast riots - podcast

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The Guardian reporter Hannah Al-Othman on the anti-immigrant rioting in Northern Ireland and the residents afraid for their lives

Stella and Sumayah are housemates.

Both care workers and students from Uganda, they live together in west Belfast.

On Tuesday night, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/10/it-was-so-terrifying-care-workers-trapped-belfast-mob">the riots across the city came to their street.

The neighbouring houses were set on fire, smoke was coming through the door, masked men were outside.

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