A schoolboy runs by a blazing van in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. (Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast)

IRA Dissidents Burn Cars, Block Belfast Roads -- Yahoo News/AP

DUBLIN – Suspected IRA dissidents and their supporters hijacked cars Monday in working-class Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in a coordinated effort to block roads and threaten police stations, police said.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was receiving a wave of reports of vehicles being hijacked by masked gunmen in several parts of Belfast and in the Kilwilkie district of Lurgan, a power base for Irish Republican Army dissidents southwest of Belfast.

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