UTV understands a number of homes on both sides have been attacked, and that a PSNI landrover was set on fire. There are unconfirmed reports that up to five shots have been fired from the direction of St Matthew’s Church, and that one man was being treated at a nearby ambulance station for bullet wounds to his ankle in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city
A bomb has been thrown at a police car in the Andersonstown Road area of west Belfast during an early morning security alert. Officers were responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle in the early hours of Tuesday morning when an explosive device was thrown at the PSNI car.
On Tuesday, the rioting continued Niall Carson, a photographer with our partners at the PA news agency has been shot. He was shot taking these photos. Reports are that Loyalists fired two bullets at a police car.
It’s depressing news.
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