01/08/2005
Detectives investigate blast bomb attack
Police are investigating the possibility of a loyalist link to a blast bomb attack on a house in Co Antrim on Monday.
A couple and their three children escaped injury in the blast, which caused damage to the front door of the family's home at Knockeen Crescent in Ballymena at about 4am.
Detectives said they are investigating whether the incident was linked to a loyalist feud. The family say they have no links with loyalist paramilitaries.
No one was injured in the attack.
Elsewhere, a man escaped injury after shots were fired through the window of his home in nearby Randalstown. The incident occurred on Moneynick Road at about 1am. There are no further details at present.
(MB/SP)
A couple and their three children escaped injury in the blast, which caused damage to the front door of the family's home at Knockeen Crescent in Ballymena at about 4am.
Detectives said they are investigating whether the incident was linked to a loyalist feud. The family say they have no links with loyalist paramilitaries.
No one was injured in the attack.
Elsewhere, a man escaped injury after shots were fired through the window of his home in nearby Randalstown. The incident occurred on Moneynick Road at about 1am. There are no further details at present.
(MB/SP)
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