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29/06/2001
POLICE TREAT BOMB ATTACKS AS SECTARIAN
POLICE are treating a nail bomb attack on a house in South Belfast just after midnight on June 29 as sectarian.
A woman sleeping upstairs escaped unharmed when the device was thrown through the living room window at Upper Dunmurry Lane. It exploded causing damage to the living room starting a fire. The woman is being treated for shock.
The police later found a car burned out at Seymour Hill. They are investigating a link between the Silver Peugeot 206 and the nail bomb attack. The car had been hijacked earlier in the evening and had a taxi sign on its roof.
In a separate incident in Londonderry, a pipe bomb exploded causing minor damage to the front door of a house at around 3.30am on June 29.
A man and two teenage children were in the house at Curlew Way when the device exploded in the front garden. The police are also treating this incident as sectarian.
(CD)
A woman sleeping upstairs escaped unharmed when the device was thrown through the living room window at Upper Dunmurry Lane. It exploded causing damage to the living room starting a fire. The woman is being treated for shock.
The police later found a car burned out at Seymour Hill. They are investigating a link between the Silver Peugeot 206 and the nail bomb attack. The car had been hijacked earlier in the evening and had a taxi sign on its roof.
In a separate incident in Londonderry, a pipe bomb exploded causing minor damage to the front door of a house at around 3.30am on June 29.
A man and two teenage children were in the house at Curlew Way when the device exploded in the front garden. The police are also treating this incident as sectarian.
(CD)
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