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Pipe bomb thrown at police in north Belfast | |
(35 minutes later) | |
The Crumlin Road in north Belfast is closed after a pipe bomb is thrown at police. | |
Police said the object was thrown at officers from Brompton Park in the Ardoyne area at about 17:00 BST. | |
The road is closed between Tennent Street and Twaddell Avenue. | The road is closed between Tennent Street and Twaddell Avenue. |
The device exploded close to police but there were no reported injuries. Motorists have been advised to avoid the area. | |
Police Service of Northern Ireland Superintendent Emma Bond said: "We consider ourselves extremely fortunate that we are not dealing with a much more serious incident and that all of the officers were able to walk away from that situation unharmed. | |
"We have appealed for calm in the area and I continue to to do so. | |
"I would appeal to anyone with influence in the community to exert it to ensure that the next few days pass off without incident. " | |
DUP assembly member William Humphrey said loyalist protesters were demonstrating peacefully in the Twaddell Avenue area when the incident happened. | |
Forty-four police officers have been injured over three nights of rioting in Belfast. | |
Officers were attacked in the Woodvale area of north Belfast on Sunday night. | Officers were attacked in the Woodvale area of north Belfast on Sunday night. |
It followed more serious rioting on Friday and Saturday nights after a Parades Commission determination that a parade by three Orange Order lodges would not be allowed to march along a stretch of the Crumlin Road that separates loyalist and nationalist communities on its return journey from the main Belfast 12 July demonstration. | It followed more serious rioting on Friday and Saturday nights after a Parades Commission determination that a parade by three Orange Order lodges would not be allowed to march along a stretch of the Crumlin Road that separates loyalist and nationalist communities on its return journey from the main Belfast 12 July demonstration. |