Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of 'racist thuggery'

Filipino Michael Sancio was awoken at midnight in fear in his home in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena when masked men began banging loudly on windows at the epicenter of two nights of rioting police have condemned as "racist thuggery."

Sancio, his wife and daughter share the home with another Filipino couple and all five fled with just items like passports to sleep elsewhere on Tuesday night. They plan to stay further outside the town on Wednesday because they feel unsafe at home.

Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the town of 30,000 people for a second successive night on Tuesday. Police are investigating the damaging of property as racially motivated "hate crimes."

REUTERS / BBC

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