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26/06/2001
RIOTS FLARE AGAIN IN NORTH BELFAST
FOLLOWING a weekend of relative calm, fresh riots flared on the streets of north Belfast on Monday night.
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers were summoned to the Limestone Road around 11pm where up to 400 people were involved in disturbances in a nationalist and loyalist interface area.
A woman was taken to hospital with a leg injury sustained during the disturbances.
The RUC said a number of bottles were thrown and heavy stoning was also taking place at the junction near Halidays Road.
Earlier RUC officers received reports of stoning in the west of the city involving up to 50 people.
The incident occurred along the peaceline separating nationalists on the Springfield Road and loyalists in Workman Avenue.
The RUC were also dealing with a number of paramilitary-style shootings in the city Monday evening.
In north Belfast a 40-year-old man received a gunshot wound to the left leg in an entry by Tyndale Grove and Ballysillan Road.
In Monkstown, north of the city, a 17-year-old sustained a gunshot wound to the leg at around 8pm. The victim was followed and lifted by two masked men driving a black van. They drove him from Devenish Avenue to ground adjacent to Lady Park where he was shot.
A third man, aged 35, was shot in the left leg at Hull's Lane in the County Antrim town of Lisburn at 7.30pm. (AMcE)
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers were summoned to the Limestone Road around 11pm where up to 400 people were involved in disturbances in a nationalist and loyalist interface area.
A woman was taken to hospital with a leg injury sustained during the disturbances.
The RUC said a number of bottles were thrown and heavy stoning was also taking place at the junction near Halidays Road.
Earlier RUC officers received reports of stoning in the west of the city involving up to 50 people.
The incident occurred along the peaceline separating nationalists on the Springfield Road and loyalists in Workman Avenue.
The RUC were also dealing with a number of paramilitary-style shootings in the city Monday evening.
In north Belfast a 40-year-old man received a gunshot wound to the left leg in an entry by Tyndale Grove and Ballysillan Road.
In Monkstown, north of the city, a 17-year-old sustained a gunshot wound to the leg at around 8pm. The victim was followed and lifted by two masked men driving a black van. They drove him from Devenish Avenue to ground adjacent to Lady Park where he was shot.
A third man, aged 35, was shot in the left leg at Hull's Lane in the County Antrim town of Lisburn at 7.30pm. (AMcE)
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