An assailant injured four people including three young children in a knife attack in central Dublin on Thursday.
In the evening, rioters looted and set vehicles on fire in the area.
AdvertisementAnti-immigration rioters torched vehicles and looted stores in central Dublin on Thursday night after a knife attack near a primary school earlier in the afternoon.
Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, said in a press release the attacker injured an adult woman and three young children, one of whom sustained "serious injuries."
"This is not about immigration, this is not about the young children who are in hospital this evening," she said .
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