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Reuters - Loyalists clash with police officers outside the City Hall in Belfast following a vote by local councilors to stop flying the British flag every day.
By NBC News staff and wire reports: Fifteen police officers were injured when hundreds of people tried to storm Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland over a plan to stop flying the British flag as it currently does every day of the year, ITV News reported.
The violence broke out after Irish nationalist councilors from the Sinn Fein and SDLP parties voted to take down the flag which has flown above the city hall every day since the building was opened in 1906.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The decision means the flag will be flown only for 17 days of the year, as is the case at the provincial assembly at Stormont.
Nationalist and Unionist parties share power under a 1998 peace deal that largely ended 30 years of sectarian violence in which more than 3,600 people died.
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