1.   Hijacked vehicles were left at York Road, Grosvenor Road, Springfield Parade, New Barnsley, Antrim Road, Tennent Street and Dunmurry stations.

2.   Catholics burned an Orange lodge hall, hijacked vehicles, blocked roads and confronted police in different parts of Northern Ireland late Thursday in protest at the police decision.

3.   Hooligans rammed two hijacked vehicles into local businesses and set them on fire.

4.   Hours later, shots and two explosions erupted around the hijacked vehicle.

5.   Successfully hijacked vehicles were soon burning in Protestant parts of north Belfast, too.

6.   The campaign she announced includes police roadblocks to search for stolen cars and to try to prevent hijacked vehicles from leaving the province.

7.   The gangs also torched several derelict buildings in Belfast and Londonderry, hijacked vehicles and set them on fire.

8.   The Irish Republican Army regularly uses hijacked vehicles to transport explosives or staff or create hoax alerts.

9.   They then abandoned the truck and fled in another hijacked vehicle, the officials said.

10.   The situation was described as calm in the rest of the city, with the occasional exception of soldiers firing in the air from hijacked vehicles driving aimlessly around.