Five Romanians, brutally attacked by alleged loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

Five Romanian men have been brutally beaten and forced to leave their house near Belfast, Northern Ireland. The incident, which took place in Hollybank Drive, Newtownabbey on Sunday night, is being treated by police as a hate crime, Belfast Telegraph reported.

Those five Romanians, aged from 15 to 19, have been severely injured, with one of them being taken to hospital immediately.

Police says the aggressors are part of a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

The Romanians’ neighbors heard the attack and saw the masked aggressors forcing their way into the house, smashing all of the downstairs windows and assaulting the occupants with baseball bats.

“There was blood and glass everywhere and wee teenage boys upstairs in the back room were really frightened,” a woman who went to the assistance of the victims told the police.