Police injury count in Belfast riot climbs to 56

Fifty-six police officers were injured during loyalist riots in Belfast city centre in a night of chaotic violence that the North’s Chief Constable has described as mindless anarchy.

Protesters who ran amok through central streets and attacked police with missiles, including scaffolding poles and paving stones ripped up from a main shopping district, have scarred the city’s reputation, Matt Baggott said.