Hannah Al-Othman

Another Romanian family, a Sudanese family, the fire brigade were there trying to bring those fires under control.

The police had got into those houses and sort of evacuated people, but just all across Belfast.

So we covered sort of west, north and east.

My understanding is that it was mostly loyalists, so people from the Protestant side.

Some of them were wearing the colours, so things like Northern Ireland football shirts or Rangers.

And again, it was in predominantly loyalist areas.

They all seemed to know each other.

We were told by some people living there that some of the Catholics had come to join in.

We saw some of that online.

He's 74, Jack McGee.

He's obviously lived through the troubles.

He's seen riots on the streets in Belfast before.

And he said, I didn't want to be out there.

I didn't want to get involved.

He got in his car and basically drove to their house, to Samaya and Stella.

He spoke to these men and said, you know, there's two women in there, please just give me ten minutes to get them out.

Religion runs deep here and, you know, they still had this respect for this church pastor and he said, you know, when he was speaking to them, some of them dropped their bricks and they put them down and he said they did allow him those ten minutes and he went in with the fire brigade.

And he got them into his car with him and his wife and took them to his house and put them up.

I think they were still quite shell-shocked.

They were still in the clothes from the night before.