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  "path": "/2026/06/11/belfast-riots-latest-rioters-dodge-police-water-cannons-hurl-bricks-antrim-28732103/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T06:44:52.000Z",
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  "textContent": "**Police used water cannons on rioters in Northern Ireland after a second night of violence triggered by the Belfast knife attack.**\n\nBalaclava-clad demonstrators tore bricks from homes, ripped up driveways and used sledgehammers to crack paving stones for projectiles to pelt officers with in Co Antrim.\n\nRoaming mobs could also be seen taking wheelie bins from outside homes and lighting fires in them.\n\nPublic transport was suspended and some schools closed early yesterday amid fears of further disorder.\n\nEarlier, Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared in court charged with attempted murder over Monday’s knife attack in which the victim, Stephen Ogilvie, lost an eye.\n\nMr Ogilvie, who is aged in his 40s, is in a stable condition in hospital in Belfast, his family said.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nIt is understood he is in an induced coma.\n\nMr Ogilvie’s relatives said the violent disorder ‘is not supported by our family’.\n\nThey 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.’\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Belfast riots latest: Water cannons used on rioters during second night of violence"
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