The attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons to fire at the Ukrainian column, hitting an armoured personnel carrier.
Police have said that there is a "genuine risk" that innocent people could get hurt after a series of gun, grenade and machete attacks by two feuding criminal factions in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Though it seems innocent enough, the immediate reaction from the Ulster Unionist leader Reg Empey, suggested it was the equivalent of "throwing a grenade into politics in Northern Ireland" if they decided to organise and fight elections there.
A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with the incident, which police have established was a retaliatory act following a grenade attack on a house in Formby Road, Salford, at 00.50 on Monday morning.
One teargas grenade thrown back by a protester landed on a pile of litter beside a library, igniting a small fire.
4. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer's sonic grenade generates a different kind of explosion: no smoke, no flames, just a solid wall of sound that blows out every window and eardrum within a 10 metre radius of the restaurant where it explodes.
His manifesto told of plan B: "Launching a string of bombings across Melbourne, targeting foreign consulates and political/military targets, as well as grenade and knife attacks on shopping centres and cafes and culminating with myself detonating a belt of explosives amongst the Kuffar".
News came through later, however, that three people had died when a grenade went off in a packed bar.
The blog includes claims that before fleeing to Syria, the writer drew up plans to launch "a string of bombings across Melbourne, targeting foreign consulates and political/military targets as well as grenade and knife attacks on shopping centres and cafes".
In another, on a tourist reception centre, a crowd caught the grenade-tosser.
But its commander lay dead in the dirt beside him, the troops were fleeing and, from a mud building in front, the 26-year-old British officer was being raked by Taliban fire.His response, for which Lieutenant Illingworth received Britain's second-highest award for gallantry, was to grab the dead Afghan's grenade-launcher and fight back.
