Calls to remove 'vile' migrant effigies placed on loyalist bonfire in Tyrone 

Moygashel bonfire in Co Tyrone (Jonathan McCambridge/PA).

Moygashel bonfire in Co Tyrone (Jonathan McCambridge/PA).

Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit.

The boat containing more than a dozen life-sized mannequins wearing life jackets has been erected on top of the bonfire in Moygashel on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone.

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