Loyalist mob forces Catholics to flee homes

A LOYALIST mob yesterday forced terrified Catholic families to flee their homes at a flashpoint area of North Belfast.

Loyalist mob forces Catholics to flee homes

At least one man was injured when the gang, including known members of the Ulster Defence

Association, moved into the Deerpark Road area carrying bricks and petrol bombs. Schoolgirls wept in fear as they were driven from their homes and one young man was hit in the face by a brick. Local Catholics said the UDA no longer wanted them to live on the road and they had received a growing number of threats to leave in the past few days.

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