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Stores looted, burned
The BBC showed footage showing thugs forcing their way into the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham. They also pushed a firebox into the building. It was not clear if asylum seekers were inside.
Ten officers were injured, but local police said no hotel staff or customers were hurt.
In Middlesbrough, a city in northeast England, Hundreds of protesters confront riot police holding shieldsSome threw bricks, cans and pots at police.
Protesters took a camera from an AFP journalist and smashed it. The journalist was not injured.
Police said more than 150 people had been arrested since Saturday following clashes at far-right rallies in Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Blackpool, Hull and Belfast in Northern Ireland, where the new unrest followed.
Rioters threw bricks, bottles and flares at police, injuring several officers, and looted and burned shops, with demonstrators chanting anti-Islamic rhetoric as they clashed with counter-protesters.
This is the worst violence in England since the killing of a mixed-race man by police in north London in the summer of 2011, sparking large-scale riots.
Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders in Liverpool have jointly called for calm.
Tiffany Lynch, of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: “We are now seeing flooding hitting major cities and towns.”
The unrest first broke out in Southport on Tuesday night before spreading across England following a frenzied knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed ball in the northwestern coastal town of Southport on Monday.
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