Three people are being treated for injuries received in shooting attacks as sectarian violence flared up again in east Belfast.
Police said two of the victims were hit in the loyalist Cluan Place area after shots were fired from the nationalist Short Strand district.
A PSNI spokesman said one man was wounded in the chest and a second man in the foot.
The man who was hit in the chest was in a stable condition.
Two hours later, a bus driver was wounded when his vehicle came under attack from a gunman in Lower Newtownards Road. Police believe the driver, whose vehicle came under attack at around 8.30 pm, was hit by flying glass.
Extra soldiers were drafted in to the Short Strand area to deal with the clashes.
At one stage, up to 1,000 people were involved in hand-to-hand fighting along the interface, the PSNI spokesman said.
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The violence flared as loyalists in the nearby Newtownards Road were holding street parties to mark the Queen's Jubilee. The incident occurred despite a heavy police and Army presence in the area throughout the day.
Northern Ireland Deputy Prime Minister and SDLP leader Mr Mark Durkan called for an end to the violence and criticised paramilitaries for trying to exploit sectarian tensions.
"We have to be in a peace process to remove all violence from our streets and not to pretend that there are permissible forms of violence or accepted locations for it," he said.
Tensions were continuing to run high in the aftermath of last night's rioting in Short Strand in which three Protestants sustained gunshot wounds.
Police said a 39-year-old man and two 15-year-old youths were shot and injured as gunfire was directed at Cluan Place in the Protestant Albert Bridge Road area.
Houses were also set on fire by petrol bombs and families moved out of a loyalist district after they came under attack from nationalists across a peaceline in the Short Strand.
The acting head of the PSNI warned today that Northern Ireland is "sleepwalking into an abyss. Acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn warned of "a fresh nightmare" that would lead to someone being killed unless steps were taken.
The disorder followed several nights of fighting between rival mobs in east Belfast which resulted in 10 police officers being injured.
Earlier, rival mobs clashed during sectarian fighting in the Whitewell Road area of north Belfast. Police and soldiers came under attack from rival loyalist and nationalist factions.
Up to 100 people who gathered on each side in the Arthur Bridge area hurled stones, bottles, paint and petrol bombs at security forces trying to separate them.
The disorder continued in the nearby Gunnell Hill and Serpentine Road areas, with gangs fighting running battles. Two people were arrested and charged with riotous behaviour.