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Belfast (AP) - Despite the death of Prince Philip and the associated appeals to renounce violence, riots broke out in the Northern Irish capital of Belfast.
According to media reports, rioters shot police officers in northern Belfast with Molotov cocktails and rockets, and some of them threw bottles and stones at the officers.
A car and garbage cans were set on fire, the PA news agency reported.
According to the BBC, other police officers were injured.
Previously, so-called loyalists - supporters of Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom - called for the protests to be "postponed" after the death of Prince Philip as a sign of respect for the Queen and her family.
After a period of mourning, the protests should continue, was to be read on posters hung in Belfast, such as the "Belfast Telegraph" reported.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's husband died on Friday at the age of 99.
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Night riots have been going on in the British province of Northern Ireland for more than a week.
Another 19 police officers were injured on Thursday, the total number rose to 74 injured officers, according to the BBC.
One of the reasons for the tensions is the special status of the British province as a result of Brexit.
Experts fear that the violence will continue to escalate.
Northern Ireland's special status, as set out in the Brexit agreement, is encountering resistance in parts of the Protestant camp.
The province is still part of the EU trade area to prevent goods controls at the border with EU member Ireland.
Instead, controls must now be carried out between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
For decades, in the Northern Ireland conflict, Protestant supporters of the union with Great Britain and Catholic supporters of a unification of the two parts of Ireland faced each other.
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