‘There’s wee girls inside’: Panic as masked men storm house in Belfast

A man is guided to safety by a PSNI officer after being rescued from houses which caught fire in Lendrick Street in east Belfast, as disorder flared in response to Monday night's stabbing attack in the city. Picture: PA/PA Wire

On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast’s Shankill Road, the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside.

As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks.