BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Protestant extremists threw homemade grenades, gasoline bombs and other makeshift weapons Saturday and at least a dozen police and two civilians were wounded in the latest fury over a restricted Belfast (search) parade.
Protestants clashed with police, British troops and Catholic crowds in several parts of Belfast after authorities blocked the Orange Order (search) — the territory's major Protestant brotherhood — from parading past the hard-line Catholic end of disputed Springfield Road (search).
At least six officers were injured by flames and shrapnel from homemade grenades and gasoline-filled bottles on the nearby North Circular Road....