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02/09/2005
Loyalists blamed for petrol bomb attacks
Loyalists are being blamed for a string of petrol bomb attacks in south Belfast on Thursday.
Up to five devices were thrown at a car park close Donegall Pass police station where some officers and other staff are though to park vechiles when on duty.
A short time earlier in the nearby Cromac Street area stones, bottles, paint and other missiles were thrown during a stand off between rival nationalist and loyalist youths. Police and community workers spent most of the evening trying to keep the two sides apart as more than 100 people clashed.
In east Belfast, meanwhile, a car was destroyed in a petrol bomb attack shortly after midnight.
The Vauxhall Vectra car was set alight outside a house in Glen Lea Park in the Garnerville area. A woman and five children in the house at the time of the incident escaped unhurt.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 028 9065 0222 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
(MB/SP)
Up to five devices were thrown at a car park close Donegall Pass police station where some officers and other staff are though to park vechiles when on duty.
A short time earlier in the nearby Cromac Street area stones, bottles, paint and other missiles were thrown during a stand off between rival nationalist and loyalist youths. Police and community workers spent most of the evening trying to keep the two sides apart as more than 100 people clashed.
In east Belfast, meanwhile, a car was destroyed in a petrol bomb attack shortly after midnight.
The Vauxhall Vectra car was set alight outside a house in Glen Lea Park in the Garnerville area. A woman and five children in the house at the time of the incident escaped unhurt.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 028 9065 0222 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
(MB/SP)
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