Belfast protests erupt again after stabbing as police deploy water cannons

World Belfast protests erupt again after stabbing as police deploy water cannons June 10, 2026 / 11:01 PM EDT / CBS/AP Add CBS News on Google Police blasted water cannons Wednesday at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them during a second night of violence over a brutal stabbing on a Belfast street.Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed sidewalks with sledgehammers to toss at riot police. In one place, the unruly crowd used sections of a dismantled picket fence to take cover on the street. The clashes with police came several hours after a 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court charged with attempted murder in a stabbing attack that left a man seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence. Protesters throw things at police blocking them from a road leading to a hotel previously believed to house migrants in Glengormley, north of Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 10, 2026. Henry Nicholls /AFP via Getty Images Hadi Alodid, 30, was ordered held in jail after appearing by video in Belfast Magistrates' Court, where a detective said he blinded Stephen Ogilvie in the left eye during the knife attack. He was also charged with possessing a knife and threatening to kill a radiographer while being treated for a hand injury after the assault.When police arrived at the crime scene, they found Alodid on the man, armed with a kitchen knife, the detective said. Alodid later told hospital staff: "I've killed someone, I don't know if they are dead," and said, "I will kill you."He refused legal representation through an Arabic interpreter and did not enter a plea.Police were prepared for more violence after masked men on Tuesday set fire to several homes they believed to house immigrants, torched a Belfast bus and pelted police with objects. BBC News reporter Kelly Bonner said the masked men shouted "foreigners out" as they set trash cans alight.  Firefigh...