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Petrol bomb thrown at mosque in Newtownards

A petrol bomb has been thrown at a mosque in Newtownards, County Down, in what police are treating as a racially-motivated hate crime.

The device, thrown at 01:00 BST on Friday, failed to ignite but racist graffiti was daubed on the building on Greenwell Street.

Cars were also set alight in Tavanagh Street and Sandhurst Gardens in Belfast.

All the incidents are being as racially-motivated hate crimes.

They follow a week of sporadic disorder which saw rioters attack police at various sites in Belfast and several members of the public reported they had been assaulted.


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