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The Home Secretary’s rhetoric comes day after a petrol bomb attack on migrant processing centre in Dover

Devices were thrown at the Border Force migrant centre in the Kent port town at around 11.20am on Sunday

Councillor warns immigration centre assault could inspire more incidents amid anti-refugee rhetoric

"I heard this bang and I thought it was a bird scarer," Reuters photographer Peter Nicholls recalls, describing the moment a man fire-bombed the gates of a centre for processing migrants in the English port of Dover and then took his own life.

The suspect - who a witness claimed was "laughing" as he flung the petrol bombs from a car window - was found dead at a nearby petrol station shortly after the arson attack, confirmed police

Photos have been released showing a man, thought to be the attacker, throwing an object which appears to have a firework attached towards a Border Force migrant centre in Dover

An attacker on Sunday threw firebombs at an immigration office used to process asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats as the government seeks to curb record arrivals.

The man is believed to have thrown three explosives at the immigration centre in Dover, Kent, before fleeing the scene a short time later.

The man is believed to have driven to the centre before exiting his vehicle and throwing three incendiary devices attached with fireworks