Further night of violence in Belfast
Rioters set fire to a number of cars
At least a dozen police officers were injured during another night of rioting on the streets of north Belfast sparked by sectarian clashes.
The violence started to tail off after midnight but earlier police came under fire from petrol bombs, paint bombs and missiles from large crowds of both republican and loyalist youths.
As the attacks intensified blast bombs were hurled and police said there were a number of shots fired at officers from the loyalist Glenbryn Parade area.
The shooting was reported after Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) Assembly member Billy Hutchinson said he had been injured by police when they forced loyalists back up the street.
Police complaint
Mr Hutchinson said he was going to make an official complaint to the Police Ombudsman about his treatment after going to hospital.
"Police officers beat men to the ground with their batons and shields and I had to get up and run," he said.
The Belfast-based nationalist morning paper, the Irish News, gave over its front page on Friday to an appeal for restraint, coupled with a call for the IRA to act on arms decommissioning.
Under a picture of a shocked elderly woman being led away from her home in Alliance Avenue after it was attacked with a blast bomb, the paper asked: "Is this what we really want?"
Sectarian violence flared on Thursday afternoon after crowds took to the streets in the Crumlin Road and Ardoyne areas of the city.
Army bomb experts were asked to deal with a number of suspicious objects thrown at police at Ardoyne Road.
Barricades
In a separate incident, trouble broke out on the republican Springfield Road in west Belfast. Two people had to be taken to hospital.
The disturbances started at about 1730 BST and lasted about two and a half hours.
Three police officers were injured as they tried to separate rival factions.
There was also trouble at Rosapenna Street in the Oldpark Road area of north Belfast, where a large crowd gathered.
Earlier, five Protestant families living at the Alliance Avenue interface in North Belfast moved out of their homes following the violent standoff.
Tensions remain high after sectarian rioting on Wednesday night which left dozens of police officers injured.
Hundreds of loyalists and nationalists clashed with the police at a sectarian interface in the Ardoyne district.
Police chiefs said 39 RUC officers were injured during the violence, five of them needing hospital treatment.
Violence condemned
The trouble followed a standoff between rival groups of Protestants and Catholics in Ardoyne which erupted when children at a Catholic school were prevented from leaving by stone throwing youths on Tuesday.
The Holy Cross Girls' Primary School was closed the following day after many parents kept children away over fears for their safety.
On Thursday morning, loyalists prevented pupils from going inside the building.
The violence has been condemned by the Northern Ireland Secretary, Dr John Reid.
He urged all sides to pull back and to "take
stock because there can be no justification for
the kind of violence that leaves 39 police
officers injured".
-- Anonymous, June 21, 2001