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04/04/2002
Police blame paramilitaries for north Belfast violence
Loyalist paramilitaries are being blamed by police for orchestrating a night of violence against the security forces in north Belfast.
The Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said the Ulster Defence Association had organised a heavy and highly violent attack on police personnel on Wednesday evening.
Trouble flared at about 7pm when a crowd of about 100 people attacked police. Stones and other missiles were thrown in the disturbances, which broke out on the Limestone Road. A car was hijacked and set alight in nearby Robina Street in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area.
Police fired 15 plastic bullets during the attack, in which at least 23 pipe and blast bombs and 30 petrol bombs were hurled at police. Thirteen officers were injured in the disturbances which lasted around three hours.
There were also least five shooting incidents where low velocity rounds were fired at police. A number of unexploded devices were taken away for forensic examination.
North Belfast Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds is to meet Security Minister Jane Kennedy following this latest incidence of street disturbances.
Both loyalist and nationalist sides have produced videos of recent incidents, which they claim illustrates police over-reacting during street violence.
(AMcE)
The Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said the Ulster Defence Association had organised a heavy and highly violent attack on police personnel on Wednesday evening.
Trouble flared at about 7pm when a crowd of about 100 people attacked police. Stones and other missiles were thrown in the disturbances, which broke out on the Limestone Road. A car was hijacked and set alight in nearby Robina Street in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area.
Police fired 15 plastic bullets during the attack, in which at least 23 pipe and blast bombs and 30 petrol bombs were hurled at police. Thirteen officers were injured in the disturbances which lasted around three hours.
There were also least five shooting incidents where low velocity rounds were fired at police. A number of unexploded devices were taken away for forensic examination.
North Belfast Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds is to meet Security Minister Jane Kennedy following this latest incidence of street disturbances.
Both loyalist and nationalist sides have produced videos of recent incidents, which they claim illustrates police over-reacting during street violence.
(AMcE)
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