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

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

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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