'A van was set alight and pushed towards my home'

'A van was set alight and pushed towards my home'10 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleBBCPaul Sharkey was frightened as masked men set fire to homes in his areaA County Antrim man has described his terror as homes were set on fire during a second night of disorder that followed a knife attack in Belfast earlier this week.Glengormley resident Paul Sharkey said he was "petrified" as he "witnessed masked man walking up our street and setting fire to homes".A clean up is under way after disorder was mainly concentrated along one street in the greater Belfast area, where police deployed water cannon to disperse a crowd.Twelve police officers were injured and 16 people arrested after Tuesday night's violence. Health care workers were threatened and children evicted from their homes.Riot police came under sustained attack from a group throwing bricks, bottles and pieces of wood at a major roundabout to the north-west of Belfast. "It was terrifying", Sharkey told BBC News NI. "A van was sat alight and pushed towards my home. "I hardly slept a wink."Across the city, a nurse was walking into work at the Ulster hospital in Dundonald, when she was confronted by masked men and chased. Her union said she had done nothing wrong apart from having a "different colour of skin," to the majority of people who live in Northern Ireland. Despite this, the union said, she "bravely" continued with her Wednesday shift at the hospital.PA MediaPatricia McKeown from Unison said a nurse was subjected to racist intimidation on her way to work'Racism, pure and simple'"When we saw the call to arms on social media we knew our overseas members would be under threat," Patricia McKeown from Unison told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme."There is no excuse for any of this. This is racism, pure and simple," she said.She said it was "not good enough to call for...