A member of the Crown Forces was injured tonight, after his armoured patrol was engaged on the Crumlin Road, in North Belfast, by whats believed to have been Irish Republican resistance fighters. One member of the British Constabulary was struck by gunfire during the action.

The Crown Forces have intensified their campaign of harassment of Republican working class areas across the North in recent months, with British troops deployed last week in West Belfast. Stop and search and house raids against Irish Republican activists and their families have also been relentless.