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11/12/2002
Disabled children’s bus attacked
Children with physical and learning disabilities have escaped injury after a window on the bus they were travelling was shattered by a ball bearing.
The children on the bus, who were travelling from Rostulla School in north Belfast, suffered shock. It is believed the ball bearing was fired at the vehicle from parkland near the Sandyknowes roundabout yesterday evening.
Police have described this as a criminal act of vandalism, which could have ended in injury or death.
(AMcE)
The children on the bus, who were travelling from Rostulla School in north Belfast, suffered shock. It is believed the ball bearing was fired at the vehicle from parkland near the Sandyknowes roundabout yesterday evening.
Police have described this as a criminal act of vandalism, which could have ended in injury or death.
(AMcE)
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