### [2021-04-7](/feed/2021/04/7/index.md)

##### 2021 Northern Ireland riots
# Loyalist youths hijack a bus and set it on fire and a photographer is assaulted and his cameras damaged in west Belfast. 




### Sources:

1. [RTÉ News](https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0407/1208499-northern-ireland/)

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