North: Homes targeted in gun and bomb attacks

27/07/2005 - 07:27:51
Detectives were today investigating a series of gun and petrol bomb attacks on homes in the North.

A couple and their two children escaped injury when 10 shots were fired at their house in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.

In North Belfast, a woman and two children were left shaken after a petrol bomb was launched at the front window of their house.

It is thought shots were also fired at the property.

In a separate incident at around the same time, a nearby home was hit by three petrol bombs.

Meanwhile, a caravan and cars outside two homes in Co Derry were damaged in separate arson attacks.

Police said no one was injured in any of the incidents and a motive has yet to be established for the attacks.