Bus torched, plastic bullets fired in fresh N. Ireland riots

January 12, 2013 09:24

Police in Northern Ireland fired plastic bullets and water cannon as pro-British loyalists furious over restrictions on flying the British flag torched a bus and hurled petrol bombs at officers.

Violence also flared in towns outside the capital Belfast as loyalists -- the Protestant community's working-class hardcore -- blocked roads around the province to express their anger. Northern Ireland has been swept with a wave of sometimes violent protests since December 3, when Belfast City Council voted to restrict the number of days the British flag is flown at City Hall to 18 per year.

Most of yesterday's province-wide protests were peaceful, with demonstrators taking the flag onto the streets, but serious disorder broke out in the towns of Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus, just north of Belfast.

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