Water cannons used against post-parade rioters

Police have used water cannons to break up a nationalist riot following a controversial Protestant Orange Order parade in west Belfast.

Water cannons used against post-parade rioters

Police have used water cannons to break up a nationalist riot following a controversial Protestant Orange Order parade in west Belfast.

Stones, bottles, bricks, fireworks and paint bombs were thrown at police lines yesterday by a crowd of around 300 people after Orangemen passed through the Springfield Road to the sound of whistles from a nationalist counter demonstration.

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