Posted on 04/03/2002 12:35:14 PM PST by colette_g
Police said the trouble began at about 2000 GMT on Wednesday when a crowd of about 100 people attacked them with at least five pipe bombs.
Police said they had been attacked by 23 pipe and blast bombs, 30 petrol bombs and that there had been five shooting incidents.
Police said these involved low velocity rounds.
Stones and other missiles were thrown in the disturbances.
Trouble broke out on the Limestone Road. A car was hijacked and set alight in nearby Robina Street in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area.
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 Until unionists politicians get off their backsides and talk to their constituents and try to put a stop to it, this will continue
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Danny Lavery
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A loyalist crowd gathered at the Halliday's Road junction in the Tiger's Bay area.
Sinn Fein councillor Danny Lavery appealed for calm and said the situation would only be resolved through dialogue.
"Until unionists politicians get off their backsides and talk to their constituents and try to put a stop to it, this will continue," he said.
Serious disturbances
Progressive Unionist Party assembly member Billy Hutchinson blamed what he described as police heavy handedness for the trouble.
Loyalist community worker Eddie McClean said "loyalist dissidents" had entered the Tiger's Bay area to stoke up the trouble.
Police said further rioting had broken out in North Queen Street and Duncairn Gardens.
On Tuesday, there were serious disturbances on the Limestone Road when rival nationalist and loyalist groups clashed.
Petrol bombs were thrown and a number of police officers injured in the violence.
There have been disturbances in north Belfast on an almost daily basis.
I assume they mean airgun pellets and not 230-grain 45 ACP coming from a silenced pistol...
Notice the incongruity of that statment? Maybe the ale should be watered down or something.
Nuke Northern Ireland!
Forgive me, I have Irish Alzehimers, I forget everything but my grudges.
Sinn Fein councillor Danny Lavery appealed for calm and said the situation would only be resolved through dialogue.
What a contrast from what we're usually fed by the media. Sinn Fein wants to sit down and talk, the Ulster Unionists act like terrorists. (Mi fhein, I'm caught in the middle with good friends on both sides the issue. I prefer that they dialogue.)
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