Riots break out in North Belfast

Updated: 22:26, Sunday, 23 June 2002

There are reports of rioting in the North Queen Street area of north Belfast tonight.

There are reports of rioting in the North Queen Street area of north Belfast tonight. Police and Army units were called to the area after a pipe bomb had been thrown at Catholic homes.

There were also reports of baton rounds being fired by security forces who were trying apart rival Protestant and Catholic groups in the Tigers Bay district.

The police said they had come under attack as they tried to quell the disorder. A vehicle was then set alight a few hundred yards away at Spamount Street in the Catholic New Lodge area.

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