A person films while watching a police vehicle burn during a demonstration outside a building housing asylum seekers in Dublin, Ireland, on Tuesday. Peter Murphy/AFP/Getty Images Dublin, Ireland Reuters —

Anti-immigrant protesters burned a police vehicle and attacked officers near a building housing asylum seekers in Dublin on Tuesday, the justice minister said, a day after a man was arrested for an attack on a young girl nearby.

The incident comes two years after anti-immigrant protesters triggered a major riot in the center of Dublin after the stabbing of three young children.

The Irish Times, which published a video of a burning police van, reported that over 500 people were involved in the protest outside the building in West Dublin on Tuesday evening.

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