North: Homes targeted in gun and bomb attacks
27/07/2005 - 07:27:51Detectives 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.
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