Second Night of Violence in Belfast

A press photographer was shot in the leg and two other people were injured when riots broke out between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast overnight. It was the second night in a row of violence.

Police said around 700 people threw fireworks, petrol bombs and other missiles in the Newtonards area of the city, a night after two people suffered gunshot wounds in what politicians described as the worst violence of its kind in the area for a decade.

Some 500 people fought in the Short Strand area, a pocket of Catholic houses in the predominantly Protestant east side of the city, on the previous night when shots were fired by both sides.

The violence comes at the start of Northern Ireland's marching season, a time of annual parades by Protestants which has triggered violent protests by Catholics in the past.

Northern Ireland Police said the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Unionist paramilitary group, was responsible for the riots.

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