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Date Posted: Tue, Sep 01 2009, 12:17:14 PDT
Author: SHORT STRAND
Subject: PLASTIC BULLETS FIRED

PSNI FIRE PLASTIC BULLETS IN SHORT STRAND 09/01/09 04:42 EST

PSNI officers in Northern Ireland fired a number of
plastic bullets last night during disturbances involving
some 200 people at an event to celebrate the closure of a
police station in east Belfast.

The Albertbridge Road, a major thoroughfare which runs
from the city center to residential parts of east Belfast,
was closed to traffic by police after 9pm.

A PSNI spokesman said some 200 people in two groups were
involved in a confrontation at the junction of Castlereagh
Street and Mountpottinger. Some missiles were thrown and
police vehicles were also targeted.

The spokesman said officers had discharged a number of
plastic bullets during the disturbances.

He said no arrests had been made and there were no reports
of injuries.

Tensions surfaced when a group of nationalists gathered at
Mountpottinger police station to mark its final day in
operation.

The station was one of 26 the Policing Board agreed
earlier this month to sell off to the private sector on
the recommendation of Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde.

The area where the trouble started is close to an
interface between the nationalist Short Strand enclave and
surrounding streets which are strongly loyalist. Residents
in Short Strand have long been campaigning for the
station�s closure.

There has been a spate of incidents in the area over the
summer and a football team bus, used by Catholics, was
targeted last week in a sectarian attack.
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