Londonderry riots: Petrol bombs thrown in SIXTH night of violence
POLICE have escaped further murder bids in Londonderry as rioters engaged in a sixth successive night of violence in the city. Two explosive devices were hurled at officers during the dissident republic fomented unrest in the city’s Bogside, with 74 petrol bombs also thrown.
Express.co.uk
Fri, Jul 13, 2018
Three men were been arrested, one on suspicion of attempted murder.
Riot police fired four baton rounds at rioters during the disturbances in the republican neighbourhood.
Many of those engaging in violence were youths, some of them of a very young age.
The latest night of disorder flared after the city hosted Twelfth of July Orange Order parades.
Members of the public were also targeted in the violence.
At one point, a hooded rioter hurled a petrol bomb at the windscreen of a van passing through the Bogside from point blank range.
The majority of the missiles were aimed at police stationed on the historic city walls overlooking the Bogside and on Fahan Street leading to the city centre.
Large groups of hooded teenagers lined the streets of the Bogside from 9pm, carrying petrol bombs in shopping bags before starting a makeshift bonfire at the bottom of a busy flyover, in an apparent attempt to goad police into the area.
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