Violence in Belfast, United Kingdom, continued for another night into Thursday over the attempted beheading of a local by a Sudanese immigrant.

Masked crowds clad in black marched out again on Wednesday night into Thursday, where they encountered a far more concerted police response than on previous nights. In contrast to the lackluster response the night before, riot police backed by fleets of armored cars confronted the crowds, who hurled masonry, bricks, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails at them. Police responded with water cannons and rubber bullets, crowd control methods that are mostly rare in the U.K.