Police officers injured in North clashes
Saturday July 12 2008
At least 12 police officers were injured last night in Belfast and Portadown.
Four officers and five civilians were treated in hospital after a loyalist incursion in Belfast.
The violence, the worst for several years associated with the Orange 12th of July marches, began around loyalist "Eleventh Night" celebrations.
The fire brigade dealt with over 110 call-outs as bonfires got out of control.
In Portadown, 13 police officers were injured in the Catholic Obins Street area as crowds gathered on each side of the peaceline near a loyalist bonfire.
The violence continued for over four hours. Police made two arrests.
In the New Lodge Road area of north Belfast, petrol bombs and stones were thrown by about 50 people.
In the Broadway area of west Belfast, a group of about 200 loyalists surged across the motorway towards Catholic homes, according to republican Sean Murray, a member of the Strategic Parades Review Group.
