UK News 05-09-2001 Loyalist Mob Runs Riot After Hit-and-Run Killing who: Royal Ulster Constabulary what: Pelted with firebombs as loyalists riot over hit-and-run killing where: BELFAST when: Yesterday snippet: "Political and community leaders are meeting for crisis talks," reports the BBC this morning, "in a bid to end the loyalist protests at a Catholic primary school in north Belfast." Yesterday morning, 200 loyalist protesters again hurled insults at Catholic parents and walking their daughters to Holy Cross Catholic Girls Primary School in Ardoyne. The confrontation "was only slightly less vicious than the incident on Monday," says The Independent. Last night, RUC officers and armed forces were attacked with petrol bombs and other missiles by 500 loyalist rioters, reports The Times, "as word spread that a loyalist teenager had been killed in a hit-and-run accident." A 32 year-old woman was arrested and police have opened a murder investigation after a car hit 16-year-old Thomas McDonald`s BMX bike and ran him over, says The Telegraph. He died in hospital from serious head wounds. "The car allegedly pursued Thomas into the loyalist White City estate, mounted a pavement and struck his cycle in Whitewell Road, an area where tensions between Roman Catholics and Protestants were already high." "It will be an eye for an eye, there is no point in telling lies about it", says 45 year-old Samuel Blair, a Protestant from the estate. "We`ve been under siege for 10 years but those who killed this young lad have upped the ante. Tensions are very, very high." [... more]

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