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EXPLAINER: What is behind the latest unrest in N Ireland?

by Jill Lawless
| April 10, 2021 12:33 AM

LONDON (AP) — Young people have hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and set hijacked cars and a bus on fire during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland. Police responded with rubber bullets and water cannons.

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