Loyalists have attacked a Catholic pensioner with a meat cleaver in North Belfast. The 65-year-old man was walking his dog along the interface at Duncairn Gardens, when two men got out of a car and slashed the man at 9.00pm last night.
The man suffered head wounds and was taken to hospital. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
Elsewhere in Belfast, six people escaped injury when a blast bomb was thrown into their home, off Tates Avenue, close to the Loyalist "village" area of South Belfast. The house occupants, who included both Catholics and Protestants, said that they would now be leaving the area.
Three police officers were injured in Sectarian rioting at the flashpoint North Queen Street area of the city last night.
Police and British Army units were called to the area after reports that a suspected pipe bomb had been thrown at Catholic homes. Police later confirmed the device was a large firework.
Up to 200 people took part in the unrest, and a number of stones and other missiles were thrown.
