African nurses forced to flee County Antrim estate after racist attacks
AFRICAN nurses and their families who were forced by racist attacks to flee a housing estate in Co Antrim spent several weeks living in a disused hospital building, BBC Northern Ireland reported today.
The Spotlight programme said that the families had faced a number of racist attacks while living on the Ballycraigy estate in Antrim Town, leading them to seek shelter in a building tucked away in a corner of Whiteabbey Hospital in Newtownabbey.
The families have since found alternative accommodation.
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