11/06/2002

Police and family attacked by petrol bombers

Police examining a suspicious object in Strabane's Ballycolman industrial estate in County Tyrone have come under attack by petrol bombers.

Officers called in to examine a suspicious object found in the estate at around midnight were attacked by a number of youths hurling petrol bombs and stones.

Following a controlled explosion carried out by Army technical officers the object was later declared a hoax.

Elsewhere, a family of three escaped injury when a petrol bomb was thrown at their home in Cairn Crescent, Crumlin, County Antrim.

Though the petrol bomb, which was thrown though a downstairs window, failed to fully ignite, the device caused scorch damage to the living room of the house.

(SP)

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