'The worst riots in years': Youths hurl petrol bombs at police who hit back with water cannon on SEVENTH night of violence in Northern Ireland - after 55 officers were injured in week-long clashes with children as young as 13 'egged on by parents'
Violence flared up in Belfast again on Thursday evening as youths hurled petrol bombs at police officers
Riot police on the republican side of the divided city were pelted with projectiles
Stones and fireworks were thrown at police by gangs of youths gathered on the nationalist Springfield Road
It comes after Unionist thugs hijacked and firebombed a bus during the riots last night
Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis is flying in to speak to Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill
The PSNI said on Thursday 55 of its officers had been injured across several nights of disorder in the country
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