A large crowd of far-right protesters clashed with police in Southport, the northern English town where three girls had been stabbed to death and five other children had been critically wounded during an attack on a Taylor Swift-themed event the day before.
Protesters attacked police and started fires in the northeast English city of Sunderland on Friday as violence spread to another northern city following Monday’s killing of three children in Southport. Anti-immigrant demonstrators threw stones at police in riot gear near a mosque in the city before overturning vehicles, setting a car alight and starting a fire next to a police office, the BBC said.
In an attempt to quash the misinformation, police have emphasised that the suspect, Axel Rudakubana, was born in Britain. Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a second visit to Southport since the murders. “As a nation, we stand with those who tragically have lost loved ones in the heinous attack in Southport, which ripped through the very fabric of this community and left us all in shock,” he said in a statement.
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