N Ireland leaders call for calm after violence escalates
A bus burns on the Shankill road area of West Belfast Northern Ireland, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Loyalists hijacked and set the bus on fire as violence continues across Northern Ireland.
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance...
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