A bus was hijacked and set on fire near an interface in Belfast after violence broke out again in Northern Ireland on Wednesday evening, writes The Irish Times.

The bus was set alight after youths pelted it with petrol bombs at the junction of Lanark Way and the Shankill Road in west Belfast.

The North’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, condemned the violence and said her thoughts were with the driver: “This is not protest. This is vandalism and attempted murder”.

The British prime minister Boris Johnson also tweeted on Wednesday night that he was “deeply concerned by the scenes of violence in Northern Ireland, especially attacks on PSNI who are protecting the public and businesses, attacks on a bus driver and the assault of a journalist”.