{"id":90502,"date":"2026-06-10T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90502"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:10:41","slug":"it-was-so-terrifying-care-workers-tell-of-being-trapped-at-home-by-belfast-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/it-was-so-terrifying-care-workers-tell-of-being-trapped-at-home-by-belfast-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was so terrifying\u2019: Care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25iXHe.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=623&y=191&s=331&d=331\" alt=\"Stella Ariokot (left) and Sumayah Nakazibwe: \u2018Someone rioting doesn\u2019t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny.\u2019 Photograph: Alan Lewis\/Photopress Belfast\/The Guardian\" width=\"648\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For four hours, two Ugandan care workers, Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot, were barricaded into their house near Crumlin Road, north Belfast, as smoke leaked in, and flames licked the walls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/it-was-so-terrifying-care-workers-tell-of-being-trapped-at-home-by-belfast-mob\/ar-AA25iFMQ?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6a28fe54bad44256aa9c7f3b359a6f48&ei=14\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>For four hours, two Ugandan care workers, Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot, were barricaded into their house near Crumlin Road, north Belfast,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ugandan-carers-Belfast.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90504,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502\/revisions\/90504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}