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10/07/2001
HOMES ATTACKED IN WEST BELFAST
PAINT bombs have thrown at three houses in a mainly nationalist area of west Belfast.
The attacks which took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning resulted in one window being broken in each of the houses in Barrack Street, and extensive damage being caused to one of the living rooms.
An elderly woman in one of the houses is suffering from stress while a man is suffering from shock after being splashed with paint in the same home.
The exteriors of the other two houses were also splashed with paint.
The rear windscreen of a car belonging to one of the exponents who live in one of the houses was smashed with a paint bomb being thrown inside. (CD)
The attacks which took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning resulted in one window being broken in each of the houses in Barrack Street, and extensive damage being caused to one of the living rooms.
An elderly woman in one of the houses is suffering from stress while a man is suffering from shock after being splashed with paint in the same home.
The exteriors of the other two houses were also splashed with paint.
The rear windscreen of a car belonging to one of the exponents who live in one of the houses was smashed with a paint bomb being thrown inside. (CD)
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