Primary school children and their parents were attacked with stones, bolts and golf balls as they left a Protestant school in north Belfast yesterday afternoon. No one was injured in the incident which happened at Currie Primary on the Limestone Road.
Parents say a group of around 20 youths ran from the nationalist end of the Limestone Road and began throwing missiles. Local DUP MP Nigel Dodds condemned the attack.
"It is essential now that the community leaders speak out and ensure that these Protestant children are given every necessary resource and protection, and their parents as well," he said.
Meanwhile, Sinn Fein has accused the RUC of harassing adults who were accompanying children to another school in north Belfast.
The incidents are alleged to have happened as a security operation to enable Catholic children to walk through a Protestant area to Holy Cross Primary School continued yesterday.
Approximately 100 Protestant residents, heavily outnumbered by riot police and British soldiers, watched in silence as parents walked with children up the Ardoyne Road shortly after 9 a.m. The protesters blew whistles and sounded horns as the parents returned 10 minutes later.
The RUC prevented one international observer from accompanying parents to school, harassed another taking photographs, and tried to stop a parent going back from the school along the route she had come, according to local Sinn Fein councillor Ms Margaret McClenaghan.