Royal Ulster Constabulary Police and British Army troops baton charged over two hundred Loyalists protesters back to Drumcree Parish Church from police lines in Portadown late, July 3. Dozens of Protestant hardliners attacked security forces with bricks and bottles in a major flare-up of violence at a Northern Ireland sectarian flashpoint on Monday, witnesses said. Troops and police wielding riot batons forced the hardliners back across fields near the hamlet of Drumcree.

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