Far-right mob storms Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers and starts fire with people inside [Video]

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A far-right mob has set fire to a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers and stormed inside.

Violent thugs in balaclavas draped in the St George’s flags hurled chairs and set off fire extinguishers at police outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, South Yorkshire on Sunday afternoon. The anti-immigrant hooligans chanted “get them out”, “you’re not welcome anymore” and “Yorkshire” as they encouraged each other to attack the hotel.

Another young group of men held a banner saying: “Stopping the boats means stopping the stabbings” and other offensive chants could be heard targeting Muslims and immigrants.

A chair is thrown at police officers outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham (Danny Lawson/PA) (PA Wire)

Police in riot gear surrounded the hotel (Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Home secretary condemned the …