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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll in Belfast

‘You can never be safe’: Belfast’s Sudanese community hunkers down after grisly attack

A police car with fluorescent markings is parked in front of red brick houses cordoned off with tape
Police cordon off an area of Belfast after an attack left a man seriously injured on Monday. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

The Sudanese barber shop owner was at his cash register and smiling at the question, “Did he feel safe in Belfast?”, when two men strolling down the street paused at his open doorway and unleashed a sudden, shrieking howl.

It ended as abruptly as it began and without saying a word the two men, white, in their 20s, wearing grey tracksuits, resumed their stroll.

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