Ambulance staff were punched, kicked, bitten and spat at during a bonfire in County Antrim
Among the assaults, ambulance staff were punched, kicked, bitten, spat at and threatened
The assaults occurred at four locations - three of them bonfire sites - in a six-hour period from late on Tuesday into the early hours of Wednesday. During the Carrickfergus attack, staff were punched, kicked, bitten, spat at and had threats made on their lives.Michael Bloomfield, the NIAS chief executive, said: "We would normally have in the region of 11 or 12 staff assaulted per week, which is of course in itself appalling - there were 652 assaults on staff last year.
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