3 December 1998 Edition

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Threat of Ligoniel siege

Hardline loyalists are threatening to lay siege this weekend to the nationalist Ligoniel area in North Belfast. Posters appeared on Wednesday afternoon announcing a march in support of the Drumcree loyalists on Saturday afternoon leaving the Orange Hall at 1pm, to march up the Ligoniel Road.

Local residents said that this leaves the prospect of the area being put under siege. This summer during Drumcree Ligoniel was blockaded two or three times a day, every day for two weeks. Three people were wounded in a shooting incident and supplies of food ran dangerously low as delivery van's were turned back by loyalists.

A resident said that Ligoniel residents were endangered returning from the town centre as buses would refuse to go up the Ligoniel Road and passengers were put off at the junction of the Crumlin Road and Ligoniel Road.

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