Belfast's Crumlin Road is wreathed in acrid black smoke and the air
filled with water from the police water cannons spraying rioters to
the entrance to the Ardoyne district. Riot squad officers continue to
come under a bombardment of bottles, stones, bricks and golf balls.
Youths from their early to late teens have then thrown pieces of a
hijacked car they alight during ongoing disorder on the sectarian
interface.
Up to 10 police landrovers, an armoured water cannon and dozens of
police officers in riot gear wielding batons and shields have penned
in about 200 youths into Brompton Park. Across the road there are
several hundred Ulster loyalists.
