Eleventh night bonfires have been lit across Northern Ireland, including at a controversial site in south Belfast. The fires are lit every year as part of celebrations in some unionist areas, ahead of the Orange Order's 12 July parades on Saturday.

MOYGASHEL, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -A model of refugees in a boat, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, prompted condemnations by politicians across Northern Ireland's political divides on Thursday, weeks after migrants' homes were attacked nearby.

Hundreds of bonfires will be lit across Northern Ireland later ahead of the Orange Order ’s July 12 parades on Saturday. The traditional fires are lit ahead of the main date in the parading calendar of Protestant loyal orders, the Twelfth of July.