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10/07/2003
Strabane family in gun attack ordeal
A couple and their two young children have escaped injury following a gun attack on their Co Tyrone home last night.
The incident occurred at Linkside Close, in the Ballycolman estate in Strabane at around 11.30pm on Wednesday evening when at least two masked men tried to get through the back door of the house and broke a window.
When the woman and her partner went to look downstairs the men fired a shot into the air.
The men then fled the scene across a nearby field firing another shot as they left.
The woman's two daughter's, aged five and three, were in bed at the time.
Police have not ruled out paramilitary involvement but have called on anyone with information to contact them.
(MB)
The incident occurred at Linkside Close, in the Ballycolman estate in Strabane at around 11.30pm on Wednesday evening when at least two masked men tried to get through the back door of the house and broke a window.
When the woman and her partner went to look downstairs the men fired a shot into the air.
The men then fled the scene across a nearby field firing another shot as they left.
The woman's two daughter's, aged five and three, were in bed at the time.
Police have not ruled out paramilitary involvement but have called on anyone with information to contact them.
(MB)
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