Rioters in Northern Ireland attacked police with bricks, bottles and other missiles yesterday wounding at least three officers on a day of parades by the pro-British Orange Order, police said. "A number of petrol bombs have been also thrown at police," police said.

A Reuters reporter on the scene said police responded to the rioting by hundreds of youths in the mainly nationalist Ardoyne area with water cannons and plastic bullets. At least one teenager among the crowd was taken to the hospital.

"I saw the child injured, I saw him being lifted semi-conscious out of the crowd," the Reuters reporter said.

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