Violence Rocks Belfast for a Second Night
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From Times Wire Reports
Sectarian tensions in North Belfast erupted into violence for the second night as Protestant and Roman Catholic youths hurled rocks and a Molotov cocktail at Northern Ireland police and soldiers keeping them apart.
The violence was sparked Wednesday by an argument between two women as parents picked up their children from a Catholic school in a Protestant enclave.
Late Thursday, hundreds of Catholic and Protestant youths gathered in the Ardoyne district, pelting police in riot gear.
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