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Woman killed after shots fired in Londonderry riot
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BELFAST (Reuters) - A woman was killed after shots were fired during rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry on Thursday that saw police attacked by petrol bombs and other missiles.

After earlier appealing for calm when a number of shots were fired in the Irish nationalist Creggan area of the city, police confirmed shortly after midnight that the 29-year-old woman had died.

“We are treating this as a terrorist incident and we have launched a murder enquiry,” Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said in a statement.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nireland-violence/woman-killed-after-shots-fired-in-londonderry-riot-idUSKCN1RV02A

One of the UK newspapers like the Express.co.uk (?) had some pretty graphic pictures of what looked like intense rioting.