Renewed trouble in Newtownabbey

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  • xman
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    • Sep 2006
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    Renewed trouble in Newtownabbey

    </span> Several vehicles were burnt out during the trouble on Monday evening
    Petrol bombs have been thrown at police during a second night of violence in the Newtownabbey area.

    A bus was hijacked and set on fire near the Cloughfern roundabout.

    Damage caused during rioting on Monday night will cost &pound;200,000 to repair. Six cars and a bus were burnt out.

    Police have said that loyalist paramilitaries have been involved in the trouble and appealed for anyone with any influence in the area to intervene to stop it.

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    The riots on Monday evening followed a number of earlier police raids in the mainly loyalist area.

    The PSNI said the searches were part of Operation Stafford, an ongoing serious crime branch investigation into a series of murders and other crimes by the UVF in north Belfast.

    At the end of last year, the PSNI took on the investigation from the Historical Enquiries Team.

    Police rejected claims that officers had been heavy-handed during the raids.

    This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.


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