The World - News from June 29, 1987

Supporters of the outlawed Irish Republican Army hurled gasoline bombs and fired at police in rioting in a Roman Catholic area of Belfast as tension mounted from an increase in killings and the approach of sectarian parades in July and August. Police and British soldiers on patrol in the area also came under a hail of stones and gasoline bombs, and an officer fired on a man armed with a handgun in a park, police said. No serious injuries were reported. The rioting came after a week when the IRA killed three people and suspected Protestant gunmen retaliated by killing a Catholic civilian.