‘Unprecedented’ attacks on 11 ambulance staff in Northern Ireland condemned as disgraceful

The burning of the Craigyhill loyalist bonfire in Larne, Co Antrim, on the Eleventh night. (PA)

Eleven on-duty ambulance staff were assaulted over an “unprecedented” six-hour period on the eve before and in the early hours of the Twelfth of July.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said that the assaults took place at four different locations, when crews were responding to calls to provide medical treatment to patients requiring assistance.