Belfast riots latest: Water cannons used on rioters during second night of violence

Police used water cannons on rioters in Northern Ireland after a second night of violence triggered by the Belfast knife attack.

Balaclava-clad demonstrators ripped bricks from homes and used sledgehammers to crack paving stones to create projectiles to pelt officers with in Co Antrim.

Roaming mobs could also be seen taking wheelie bins from outside homes and lighting fires in them.

Public transport was suspended and some schools closed early yesterday amid fears of further disorder.

Earlier, Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared in court charged with attempted murder over Monday’s knife attack in which the victim, Stephen Ogilvie, lost an eye.

Mr Ogilvie, who is aged in his 40s, is in a stable condition in hospital in Belfast, his family said.

It is understood he is in an induced coma.

Mr Ogilvie’s relatives said the violent disorder ‘is not supported by our family’.

They added in a statement: ‘We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility – do not do this in the name of our loved one as we do not share the same values.’