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A Nationalist youth prepares to throw a projectile at a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo: AP
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) blasted water cannons at groups of people in Belfast who gathered and threw objects at police again.
Ongoing violence has plagued several parts of Northern Ireland over the course of the last week, despite police attempts to quell demonstrations.
On Thursday night, gangs gathered in the Springfield Road area of Belfast, near the Peace Wall where violence took place on Wednesday evening, to which police responded.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) blasted water cannons at groups of people in Belfast who gathered and threw objects at police again. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm on Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other.
It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britainâs exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Crowds including children as young as 12 or 13 clashed across a concrete âpeace wallâ in west Belfast that separates a British loyalist Protestant neighbourhood from an Irish nationalist Catholic area. Police fired rubber bullets at the crowd, and nearby a city bus was hijacked and set on fire.
rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Nationalist youths gesture towards a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
(CN) They’re scenes reminiscent of Northern Ireland’s dark past: Working-class youths throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police on rain-pelted streets; a double-decker bus hijacked and lit on fire; masked men seen running down a dreary Belfast street toward a riot with crowds clapping and cheering them on.
Northern Ireland is in the midst of a wave of violence and political anger that many warned would happen once the United Kingdom exited the European Union and enacted its Brexit strategy, upending a precarious balance that’s kept the peace in one of Europe’s most volatile regions.