Further sectarian disturbances in Belfast

Updated: 22:16, Friday, 7 June 2002

There has been more sectarian trouble in Belfast as security chiefs prepared to strengthen they city's peace walls in an attempt to keep rival Protestant and Catholic crowds apart.

Police and British troops moved into the east of the city where opposing factions clashed outside a doctor's surgery.

Catholics in the Short Strand area also claimed homes were hit by a pipe bomb and stones, while a number of elderly Protestants said that their houses were attacked with missiles close to the Shankill district.

Police warned that they would use water cannon in an attempt to quell disturbances in the Short Strand.

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