{"id":631629,"date":"2026-06-10T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:29:09","slug":"belfast-attack-public-transport-and-businesses-shut-down-amid-fears-of-further-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631629\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast attack: Public transport and businesses shut down amid fears of further violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said people were rightly sickened by the horrific attack on Monday night in north Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But let me be clear, the acts of violence and arson that followed are totally unjustified,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prime minister said he had spoken to Northern Ireland&#8217;s first and deputy first ministers, and the PSNI chief constable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are united in calling for calm and determined to restore order, support the police and all those on the front line, and ensure that justice is done,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the scenes were &#8220;deeply disturbing&#8221;, adding that people had a &#8220;right to be angry&#8221; and the right to &#8220;expect politicians to secure our borders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But no-one has a right to burn families out of their homes or to burn public property and attack the police,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said people were rightly sickened by the horrific attack on Monday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}