Holiday Inn on fire as mob smashes way into hotel housing asylum seekers before starting blaze

Rioters have stormed a hotel housing asylum seekers and set a fire as yet more protests erupted on the streets of the UK on Sunday (August 4).

Footage shared on social media captures a mob smashing their way into the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The shocking clip shows the yobs march into the hotel to the horror of worried onlookers, before further footage shows items of furniture leaning against the exterior of the hotel on fire, the Mirror reports.

Dramatic photos taken inside the hotel show police officers tending to a wounded colleague while the mob smashes windows and hurls tables and chairs. Thugs pelted police officers with bricks outside the building.

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Shocking videos show protesters, including some waving England flags and Union Jacks and others wearing balaclavas, shout slogans including "get them out" and rock a police van and its camera.

Another placard being waved outside the Holiday Inn reads: "Stopping the boats means stopping the stabbings." Another reads: "Men don't flee war and there is no war in France."

Objects, including pieces of wood and chairs, were thrown at the hotel and at police officers as they were lined up in front of the building. At least one injured officer in riot gear was carried away by colleagues, it is understood.

The protest comes as a wave of violent disorder sweeps the UK in the wake of the murders of three young girls in Southport, Merseyside. Protests turned chaotic yesterday and have again become violent including in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

One video taken in Bolton shows police officers struggle to keep two groups of