15-strong gang carry out racist attack
A man has lost two teeth after he and two others were targeted in a racist attack in east Belfast.
Two men in their early 20s and a 19-year-old woman, all from Eastern Europe, were assaulted by a gang of around 15 people in the Lawnmount Street area on Monday between 9pm and 9.30pm.
The gang – which included one woman – assaulted the victims with golf clubs leaving them with bruising and cuts, while one man lost two teeth.
Police are treating it as a race hate crime and are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the attack to contact them on the new non-emergency number 101.
