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Seconda serata di disordini lealisti a North Belfast

Police attacked in north Belfast

13 07 2013: disordini lealisti a North Belfast

Police have come under attack after sporadic violence flared for a second night in north Belfast.

A PSNI spokesman says riot police continue to deal with disorder in the Woodvale Road area of the city after loyalist crowds gathered on Saturday evening.

Police lines are being pelted with missiles, including stones, bottles and fireworks. Water cannon has been deployed.

It is understood a small group of masked youths are involved in the disturbances and police have created a no-go area between two parts of Woodvale Road.

Motorists are being urged to avoid the area.

Meanwhile crowds who gathered on Castlereagh Street in the east of the city have now dispersed and the road is reopened to traffic.

It comes after rioting, in which 32 police officers were injured, erupted on Friday night.

Trouble broke out on the Twelfth after the PSNI prevented an Orange Order march from passing the Ardoyne shop fronts, in accordance with a Parades Commission ruling.

Twenty officers were injured as missiles including bottles and bricks were thrown during six hours of violence.

North Belfast DUP MP Nigel Dodds, who is also a member of the Orange Order, was hit on the head by an object thrown by loyalists at police and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. He was later discharged.

There was also disorder in the lower Newtownards Road area of east Belfast. Twelve police were injured and one suffered a suspected broken jaw.

Four hundred extra police officers from Great Britain have been deployed to Northern Ireland following Friday’s troubles.

Earlier on Saturday evening, UTV reporter Marc Mallett said loyalists staged a peaceful protest at the top of Twadell Avenue in north Belfast.

He said the second night of violence in the city was not on the same scale as that of the previous night.

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