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Three Shot In Belfast Riots Three people have been shot as a new wave of sectarian rioting erupted in east Belfast. Houses were petrol bombed and families moved out of a loyalist district after nationalists attacked them across a peaceline. A man, 39, and two teenagers were wounded as gunfire was directed at Cluan Place in the Protestant Albertbridge Road. Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine said the man was taken to hospital after being hit in the back and lower leg. The youths suffered bullet wounds to their lower legs, he said. Residents forced to flee their homes were...

Violence erupts in Belfast Police were attacked with low velocity rounds Police have fired 15 plastic baton rounds after being attacked by a loyalist crowd with gunfire and pipe bombs in north Belfast. 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...

Clashes between rival factions Fresh disturbances have taken place on the Limestone Road in north Belfast. Police and the Army came under petrol bomb and pipe bomb attack after clashes between rival groups on Monday. A hijacked lorry was set on fire but there were no reports of injuries. On Sunday night, a pipe bomb was thrown during disturbances in the area. Up to 100 nationalists and loyalists began hurling stones at each other, before police moved in to separate them. Petrol bombs On Sunday several soldiers and police officers were injured in clashes in north Belfast. Rival loyalist and...