Photographer shot in second night of Belfast violence

BELFAST, June 22 (AFP): A photographer was shot in the leg and police were pelted with petrol bombs in a second night of sectarian violence in Belfast, in some of the worst clashes in Northern Ireland for years.

Police used water cannon as up to 400 people gathered in the Protestant east Belfast on Tuesday evening, near a Catholic area which was a notorious flashpoint during three decades of civil strife which started in the late 1960s.

Several gunshots were fired just before midnight, police and witnesses said, and a photographer working for Britain's Press Association news agency was shot in his lower right leg. He was taken to hospital but was in a stable condition.

The paramilitary group wants Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain, unlike the republican Catholics who want it to join with the Republic of Ireland.

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