According to videos posted on social media a bus has been hijacked and set on fire during riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Loyalist youths in the Shankill Road area of Belfast petrol bombed and hijacked a bus Wednesday evening. Driver was forunately able to escape from the scene. A press photographer was attacked and his camera was damaged during the violence in the Capital.
The cause of the violence is told to be the frustration over a decision not to prosecute members of Sinn Fein over alleged coronavirus regulation breaches at the funeral of republican Bobby Storey.
BELFAST RIOTS VIDEOS
A petrol bomb thrown into a bus at a bus driver in Belfast tonight.
A journalist beaten up and called a “Fenian c**t” only a few hours ago.
This needs to stop. Someone is going to lose their life. And who’ll be there to pick up the pieces because it won’t be @BorisJohnson! pic.twitter.com/zExXJtLRWE
— Andrew Quinn (@AndrewEQuinn) April 7, 2021
One more footage of the bus that has been hijacked and set on fire during riots tonight in Lanark Way, west Belfast as serious violence continues.
https://twitter.com/trishdevlin/status/1379871010808270850?s=20
Video of the burning bus in West Belfast as violence continues for another night in Lanark Way, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Shankill is now closed off in both directions @BelfastLive @bbcnewsline @PaulClark_UTV @StephenNolan pic.twitter.com/q1qj8AgOxV
— Hugh Pollock (@thebaldfather) April 7, 2021
Bus totally burned during riots in Belfast
https://twitter.com/qnewsdesk/status/1379874522086641667?s=20
