Bombers attack house
Another pipe bomb attack was launched in Northern Ireland early today, police said.
No-one was hurt in the latest blast, but the occupant of the targeted house woke to find the hall filled with smoke and the front door lying open.
The incident followed two weekend pipe bomb explosions elsewhere in the province, and an attack on staff inside Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital which was blamed on loyalist paramilitaries.
The latest pipe bomb attack, which happened at 2.45am today, damaged the front door, roof and porch of a house, in the Derriaghy area of Lisburn, County Antrim.
Meanwhile police were also examining a suspicious object on the doorstep of a house in Coleraine, Co Derry.
This morning’s find, in Clarence Court, followed a pipe bomb explosion at a Catholic home on Kylemore Road in the town yesterday.
A window in a Catholic church in Glennock, Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, was damaged by a similar crude device yesterday.
Meanwhile, Royal Ulster Constabulary detectives were still studying videotape of an incident in the Royal Victoria Hospital casualty department early on Saturday in which a number of hospital staff were injured by people claiming to be members of the outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force.
The hospital said staff were physically assaulted, had their lives threatened and were spat upon.
:: A 19-year-old man was being treated for gunshot wounds to his leg and arm after being shot in the Legahorry area of Craigavon, County Armagh.
A 32-year-old man suffered head, leg and arm injuries when he was beaten by six masked men in Ballyronan, Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
