Photographer shot in Belfast sectarian clashes

IRELAND: A press photographer was shot in the leg and police were pelted with petrol bombs as sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast continued to rage on Wednesday.

The Press Association photographer was taken to hospital after being hit in the lower leg, the British news agency reported.

Earlier, two people were hospitalised after suffering from gunshot wounds, Northern Ireland police said Tuesday.

The violence erupted Monday after suspected Protestant gangs who support British rule in the province attacked homes overnight in Short Strand, a Catholic enclave in Protestant east Belfast, local officials said.

The violence reignited late Tuesday as local television station UTV reported that a man was seriously ill in hospital after his skull was fractured by a breeze block. AFP