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10/05/2011
Grenade Attack Puts Derry Kids In Firing Line
Children were in the 'firing line' yesterday when an attempt to kill PSNI officers failed only because the hand grenade used didn't explode as intended.
The two children - under the age of 10 - were nearby when the 'military grenade' was thrown as police were dealing with a hoax security alert in the Southway Road area of Creggan on Monday afternoon.
Speaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin said the "viable" device landed at one police officer's feet.
He said it was "sheer good fortune" that n-one was hurt or killed.
"There were four officers in fairly close proximity to the attack," he said.
"I have absolutely no doubt that the person who threw this believed it would detonate and if it had detonated I would be talking this morning about seriously injured or killed police officers and young children."
The Alliance Foyle representative Keith McGrellis has also expressed his shock at a grenade attack on police in Londonderry on Monday night.
Police were dealing with a security alert on the Southway Road when a man threw a grenade at them; it did not explode and caused no injury.
Keith McGrellis said: 'I am shocked and outraged at this attack on members of the Police Service. They are there to protect the community, but this mindless thug has attempted to murder officers as they carry out their duties.
"If anybody has any information about this attack then they must contact the police. This person is clearly a dangerous individual who needs to apprehended by police urgently," he said.
Dissident republicans are being blamed for throwing the grenade which was "viable" prompting the SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan to comment: "This type of activity is futile, senseless and is rejected by the majority of people in Derry."
(BMcC/GK)
The two children - under the age of 10 - were nearby when the 'military grenade' was thrown as police were dealing with a hoax security alert in the Southway Road area of Creggan on Monday afternoon.
Speaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin said the "viable" device landed at one police officer's feet.
He said it was "sheer good fortune" that n-one was hurt or killed.
"There were four officers in fairly close proximity to the attack," he said.
"I have absolutely no doubt that the person who threw this believed it would detonate and if it had detonated I would be talking this morning about seriously injured or killed police officers and young children."
The Alliance Foyle representative Keith McGrellis has also expressed his shock at a grenade attack on police in Londonderry on Monday night.
Police were dealing with a security alert on the Southway Road when a man threw a grenade at them; it did not explode and caused no injury.
Keith McGrellis said: 'I am shocked and outraged at this attack on members of the Police Service. They are there to protect the community, but this mindless thug has attempted to murder officers as they carry out their duties.
"If anybody has any information about this attack then they must contact the police. This person is clearly a dangerous individual who needs to apprehended by police urgently," he said.
Dissident republicans are being blamed for throwing the grenade which was "viable" prompting the SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan to comment: "This type of activity is futile, senseless and is rejected by the majority of people in Derry."
(BMcC/GK)
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