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12/12/2003
Pensioner treated for shock following bomb attack
Police are appealing for information after a 92-year-old woman was treated for shock following a bomb attack on her home in Co Fermanagh on Friday.
The pensioner was sleeping in a back bedroom of her house in the Brook area of Enniskillen when a bomb was thrown through a front window at around 3am.
The device exploded shattering three windows and damaged a downstairs room. As police arrived at the scene a second device exploded in the nearby Henry Street.
It was reported that the elderly woman was the mother of a local political representative.
Fermanagh and South Tyrone Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott, condemning the bombing said it was an "evil attack on an elderly woman".
He said: “I thought this Province had moved on from this type of iniquitous action and one wonders what kind of society we are living in when people can stoop to this sort of callous attack on a defenceless pensioner. It is nothing short of disgraceful."
He urged anyone who might have seen anything suspicious to help the police with their enquiries: "The sooner those responsible are apprehended the better.”
No one was injured in either incident and no motive has yet been determined by police. Anyone with information on either attack is asked to contact police immediately.
(MB)
The pensioner was sleeping in a back bedroom of her house in the Brook area of Enniskillen when a bomb was thrown through a front window at around 3am.
The device exploded shattering three windows and damaged a downstairs room. As police arrived at the scene a second device exploded in the nearby Henry Street.
It was reported that the elderly woman was the mother of a local political representative.
Fermanagh and South Tyrone Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott, condemning the bombing said it was an "evil attack on an elderly woman".
He said: “I thought this Province had moved on from this type of iniquitous action and one wonders what kind of society we are living in when people can stoop to this sort of callous attack on a defenceless pensioner. It is nothing short of disgraceful."
He urged anyone who might have seen anything suspicious to help the police with their enquiries: "The sooner those responsible are apprehended the better.”
No one was injured in either incident and no motive has yet been determined by police. Anyone with information on either attack is asked to contact police immediately.
(MB)
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