In the midst of Sunderland riots, a far-right crowd approached a mosque and screamed anti-Islamic slogans, setting a police station on fire. As part of the ancient Sunderland Central Police Office caught fire, witnesses observed emergency personnel racing to the scene.

Although they have not confirmed this, Northumbria Police stated that its officers had been "subjected to serious violence" in a post on X, the former Twitter.

A police-protester standoff occurred outside a mosque on Sunderland's St Mark's Road in another location.

The continued protests follow misinformation on social media about the stabbings on Monday in Southport, in which Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were killed. Axel Rudakubana, 17, appeared in court on suspicion of murder.

Sir Keir Starmer has put police forces on an emergency footing as more far-right protests are planned over the weekend after the killing of three children in Southport. At least 35 far-right protests have been advertised online.