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02/07/2001
BOMB ATTACKS BLAMED ON LOYALISTS
LOYALISTS have been blamed for bomb attacks on houses in Belfast over the weekend.
In the first attack, a man and woman and her children aged four and five escaped injury when a blast bomb was thrown at their home in north Belfast.
The device exploded at the front of the house on the Deerpark Road just after midnight on Saturday 30 June. The device broke windows at the front of the house and caused scorch damage. It is thought the attack was directed at the catholic father-of-two. The man, who was not in the house at the time of the attack, had received a loyalist death threat six weeks ago. The man’s partner and her cousin and two children escaped injury but were treated for shock.
Meanwhile, in the Peter’s Hill area close to the Shankill Road, a 60-year-old woman and her son have moved out of their house in Brown Street after a pipe bomb exploded in the back yard. The strength of the blast broke several windows in the area.
A house three doors away was targeted earlier this week, and two other families living in the same terrace have left the area following the attack. (AMcE)
In the first attack, a man and woman and her children aged four and five escaped injury when a blast bomb was thrown at their home in north Belfast.
The device exploded at the front of the house on the Deerpark Road just after midnight on Saturday 30 June. The device broke windows at the front of the house and caused scorch damage. It is thought the attack was directed at the catholic father-of-two. The man, who was not in the house at the time of the attack, had received a loyalist death threat six weeks ago. The man’s partner and her cousin and two children escaped injury but were treated for shock.
Meanwhile, in the Peter’s Hill area close to the Shankill Road, a 60-year-old woman and her son have moved out of their house in Brown Street after a pipe bomb exploded in the back yard. The strength of the blast broke several windows in the area.
A house three doors away was targeted earlier this week, and two other families living in the same terrace have left the area following the attack. (AMcE)
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