09/02/2004

Two children injured in bottle attack

Police are appealing for information after two children were injured in a bottle attack.

The children, aged five and just 15 weeks, sustained cuts to the face and ear after a bottle was thrown through the window of the car they were travelling in.

The incident occurred as the car travelled along Bilston Road in the Ligoniel area of north Belfast at around 4pm on Sunday.

Neither children needed hospital treatment.

Police said a man in his 20's was behind the incident and that it was random attack.

(MB)

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