The UK government on Tuesday, August 6 said that 6,000 specialist police officers were ready to deal with far-right protesters.

This came after another night of destruction and looting in several English cities.

The previous day, six people had been arrested and several police officers injured in a clash with violent protesters in Plymouth, southern England.

In Birmingham, central England, a group of men — some in balaclava wielding knives — who gathered, presumably to counter far-right demonstrations, forced a Sky News reporter off air, shouting “Free Palestine”.

In Belfast, Northern Ireland, a foreign national in his 30s was seriously injured after rioters attacked and attempted to set fire his shop.

U.K violent protests

U.K is currently experiencing its most severe rioting in 13 years.

The anti-immigration protests erupted on Tuesday, July 30, a night after three young girls were stabbed to death in Southport on Monday, July 29.

Violence began when masked anti-immigrant demonstrators attacked a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, with the ripple effect being skirmishes breaking out at far-right rallies in Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol.

Demonstrators have been clashing with police officers, looting shops, with the latest incident seeing rioters throwing petrol bombs in Belfast.

Nearly 400 people have been arrested since the rioting began.