Rioters attack hotel thought to housing asylum seekers
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Rioters attack hotel thought to housing asylum seekers
Anti-immigration demonstrators attack police and smash the windows of a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, thought to be housing asylum seekers.
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