Around 26 police officers have been injured in overnight violence in Belfast.

The officers came under attack from republicans and loyalists during violence linked to a nationalist parade.

It happened in an area in the north of the city.

Stones and bottles were thrown at police as they intervened in the violence.

3 officers have been treated in hospital.

Tensions had been simmering in recent days over trouble close to a Catholic church not far from the parade yesterday.

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