The UDA was last night (Sunday) accused of reigniting sectarian tensions at a north Belfast interface. Nationalist politicians accused the paramilitary group of being behind pipe-bomb attacks at the Lime-stone Road interface over the weekend.
British army bomb experts were called in to deal with an unexploded device in Newing-ton Street yesterday afternoon.
In the most serious incident a pregnant mother-of-three rec-eived stitches to a head wound after being injured by shrapnel from a pipe bomb on Saturday night.
The 34-year-old, who was too frightened to be identified, said: "I heard trouble starting out on the Limestone Road and went to bring my kids in.
"I had just got to the bottom of the street when there was an explosion directly behind me.
"The blast knocked me to the ground and when I was picked up there was blood gushing from the back of my head.
"There was blood everywhere and all I could think about was the fact that I am pregnant and have lost a child before.
"When I was brought to hospital the doctors stitched my head up and told me that I was lucky to be alive."
Nationalist residents reported that up to three pipe bombs were thrown during the incident, as well as a number of shots being fired from the loyalist Tigers Bay.
The victim of Saturday night's attack said it only a matter of time before someone was killed by loyalists.
"We were forced to move out of our home on Newington Avenue two years ago because of the loyalist attacks," she said.
"My 11-year-old son was hit in the face by an acid bomb thrown over the peaceline. We moved to this house because we thought it was safer.
"There are decent people in Tigers Bay who do not want anything to do with
this but the UDA is hell bent on starting trouble.
"Everyone knew that once they sorted out their feud they would turn their attentions back on to the Catholics.
"They won't rest until they kill someone," she added.
Sinn Féin councillor Gerard Brophy challenged Secretary of State Paul Murphy to visit the area, saying: "Last week we had Paul Murphy welcoming the fact that the UDA feud was over.
"People in this area knew that once that feud was over they would become UDA targets again.
"Paul Murphy needs to come out to this area, which is now into its third year of being attacked, and see just what people are having to live with."
SDLP assembly member Alban Maginness said he had no doubt that the UDA was behind the attack.
"Having sorted out their feud the UDA has returned to attacking nationalist homes, which they have consistently been involved in for four years," he said.
Last night bomb disposal experts were called to examine a suspicious device found Madrid Street in the predominantly nationalist Short Strand.
Meanwhile, three pensioners received medical treatment last night after a device was thrown into a house in the Ambleside Street area of Tennants Street, close to the Shankill Road.
British army bomb experts were sent to the scene shortly after 8pm.
