Girl, aged 10, plays with bomb thrown at family home

A BOMB attack on a prison officer’s home in which his young daughter had a narrow escape after unwittingly picking up the device was branded contemptible yesterday.

The 10-year-old girl handled the unexploded bomb after finding it in the garden of the house in Bangor, Co Down. It had been thrown at the Brunswick Road house in the early hours of Wednesday morning, smashing a window but failing to detonate, police said.

The little girl later found the bomb while playing in the front garden and took it inside the house. It was several hours before her parents realised what she had found and raised the alarm.