29 PSNI officers injured in internment bonfire attack

Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee said there had been no major pyres and just some “pop-up” bonfires where a small amount of material was gathered in a short space of time.

Twenty-nine PSNI officers were injured, including three who needed hospital treatment, after coming under attack as they facilitated the removal of an internment bonfire.

Their injuries ranged from concussion to head, back and neck injuries, after they came under “sustained and violent attack” at Distillery Street in west Belfast on Saturday.